OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2139, 4 May 1914, Page 5

OBITUARY.

: THE DUKE OP ARGYLL, { By Tdegffcph—Press AssaMMlon—CoftyrigM 1 (Ree. May 4, 0.30 a. at,) . London, llaj'l, Tho death is announced of the DiAo Off Argyll, who contracted doublo pneumonia ttg the result of a chill. The best fcnflwa of all the Scottish Peers, porhttlfi. Was tlio Pake of Argyll, who, as , Marquess of Lorne, led to tire altar Prin- ( cess J/Ouise of England, As tl»e intuit pi ■ tho Clan Campbell, Qjo Duke tsceupietl' tho . \ proudest position, -afiiong the Hig.hT&wl: lord*. <toi his family is the most widely! and nobly coimetited 6f< any in the three. kingdoms, not exce.pttns the S«mltonß.j and Ms titles would take as long in fecitioff as thttro of the tfrinca of Wales hrw edit. Born in 18-15, ho went to Eton, thenee to St. Andrews, .and finished at Trinity Collefte, Catataklge, Be early took alt active shave in volunteer military, sorvteej first becoming BeiiteMrlHCOknel t commandant of the First Argyll t»nd Bute Artillery, ti.ftd was honorary colonel tit several fine volunteer and militia Teg-intents 5 now. He foutul a political life (i»fcSabte k also, and ■ foe represented Ar.ffvllshire as ', & Liberal from IWB to M? 8, but failed to ( get in for BampStead in KSSS. He sat for South Manchester as A Liberal -Unionist s from 1593 to 1000, when he succeeded life ' father *« Ninth Dukfc» and ho was for five years Goveruai-Qeiteral for Oa-n-p-da. So powerful a Peer nyn-sfc needs have many Territorial rasponsibilUißfi, and lis was invested with the duties of, among other positions, the Hereditary Master tif tho Kiftir's Household in Socithuul» Adimrnl of tho Western Isles, Lord Lieutenant of several emiwttoi he was a Privy Councillor, f -and' Knight of tlw Thistle, 0.C.M.6.. G.C.V.O.f and Councillor of the Order of , St. Miehnel and St. 'George. Mis heir is I Lord Archibald Campbell, his brother, )l -.-^.-■-.-.- ..■■■■... ..., .-,