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George John Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll ( 30 April 1823 - 24 April 1900) was a prominent Liberal politician and man of letters of the 19th century.
A close associate of Prince Albert, he served as Lord Privy Seal in the cabinet of Lord Aberdeen, and then as Postmaster General in Lord Palmerston's first cabinet. He was again Privy Seal in the second Palmerston administration, where he was notable as a strong advocate of the Northern cause in the American Civil War.
In Gladstone's first government, Argyll became Secretary of State for India, in which role his refusal to promise support against the Russians to the Emir of Afghanistan helped lead to the Second Afghan War. In 1871, while actually serving in the Cabinet, his son and heir, Lord Lorne, married the Queen'sVictoria (Alexandrina Victoria) ( 24 May 1819 22 January 1901) was a Queen of the United Kingdom, reigning from 20 June 1837 until her death. Her reign lasted more than sixty-three years—longer than any other British monarch. As well as being Queen of the daughter, Princess LouiseHer Royal Highness The Princess Louise (Louise Caroline Alberta), ( 18 March 1848 3 December 1939) was a member of the British Royal Family, the sixth child and third daughter of Queen Victoria. She later held the title of Duchess of Argyll. Early Life Pr, enhancing his status as a leading Grandee.
In 1880Events January 1 Construction of the Panama Canal begins February 2 The first electric streetlight is installed in Wabash, Indiana February 13 Thomas Edison becomes the second person to observe the Edison Effect. February 17 Bomb explodes in Winter Palace he again served under Gladstone, as Lord Privy Seal, but resigned a year later in opposition to the government's Irish policy. In 18861886 is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) Events January 18 Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. January 29 Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile. March, he fully broke with Gladstone over the question of Irish Home Rule, although he did not join the Liberal UnionistsThe Liberal Unionists were a British political party which split away from the Liberals in 1886, and had effectively merged with the Conservatives by the turn of the century, the formal merger being completed in 1912. Their principal leaders were Lord Har, but pursued an independent course. He died in 1900.
Argyll was not only a politician, but also an eminent scientist, or at least an eminent publicist on scientific matters, especially evolutionThis article is about biological evolution. For other possible meanings, see Evolution (disambiguation). Evolution generally refers to any process of change over time. However, in the context of the life sciences, evolution is a change in the genetic make and economics. He was a leader in the scholarly opposition against Darwinism (1869, 1884b) and an important reality-based (i.e., heterodox, non-classical) economist (1893) and institutionalist (1884a), in which latter capacity he was quite similar to his political opponent and predecessor as Lord Privy Seal when he held that position for a third time, Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield. While some of his works seemed quite strangely reactionary and obsolete at the times and for many decades, recent trends in scholarship - in evolutionary and institutional economics, as well as in ("post-genomic") biology - have led to some very positive reevaluation of his work.