Sir John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell
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Sir John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Sir John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell Lorne, Marquis of. - The Right Hon. Sir John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell, K.G., G.C.M.G., Marquis of Lorne, ex-Governor-General of Canada, was born at Stafford House, St. James Park, London, England, on the 6th of August, 1845. He is the eldest son of the eighth Duke of Argyle and Lady Elizabeth Georgina Sutherland Levison-Gower, eldest daughter of the second Duke of Sutherland. The young Marquis seems to have been a favourite when a child, for we find Her Majesty the Queen, in her "journal of our Life in the Highlands," makes the following very pleasing aallusion to the boy, who as time sped on was to become her son-in-law. Speaking of her reception at Inverary Castle, the seat of the Duke of Argyle, in Argyleshire, Scotland, she says:- "It was in the true Highland fashion. The pipers walked before the carriage, and the Highlanders on either side as we approached the house. Outside stood the Marquis of Lorne, just two years old, a dear, white, fat, fair little fellow, with reddish hair, but very delicate features, like both his father and mother; he is such a merry, independent little child. He had a black velvet dress and jacket, with a sporan, scarf and Highland bonnet." The marquis was educated at Eton, and afterwards passed successively to the University of St. Andrews and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1866, he became connected with the military, by appointment, as captain of the London Scottish Volunteers, and in 1868 was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the Argyle and Bute Volunteer Artillery Brigade. For literary and artistic pursuits the marquis possesses much natural ability as well as cultivated taste, the result of study, observation and experience. His first published work was, "A Tour in the Tropics," the result of his observations during a trip through the West Indies and the eastern part of North America, in 1866. Although the autho
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