Qui es va casar amb George Campbell (8e duc d'Argyll)?

John George Douglas Campbell (30 avril 1823 – 24 avril 1900), 8^e duc d'Argyll, est un éminent homme politique libéral écossais du Royaume-Uni et polymathe, nommé marquis de Lorne jusqu'en 1847. Il a fait une découverte géologique importante dans les années 1850 lorsque son locataire a trouvé des feuilles fossilisées incrustées dans de la lave basaltique sur l'île de Mull. Il a également contribué à populariser l'ornithologie et a été l'un des premiers à donner un compte rendu détaillé des principes du vol des oiseaux dans l'espoir de faire progresser la navigation aérienne artificielle (c'est-à-dire les machines volantes). Il produit de nombreux écrits sur des sujets allant de la science et de la théologie à l'économie et à la politique. En plus de cela, il a servi en bonne place dans les administrations de George Hamilton-Gordon (4e comte d'Aberdeen), Henry John Temple, John Russell (1er comte Russell) et William Ewart Gladstone.

Elizabeth Georgiana Campbell, Duchess of Argyll (née Leveson-Gower; 30 May 1824 – 25 May 1878), was a British noblewoman and abolitionist. Born into the wealthy Sutherland-Leveson-Gower family, she was the eldest daughter of the 2nd Duke of Sutherland by his wife, the political hostess Lady Harriet Howard. In 1844 Elizabeth married George Campbell, Marquess of Lorne, eldest son and heir to the 7th Duke of Argyll. She became the Duchess of Argyll in 1847 when her husband succeeded his father.

Like her mother, the Duchess of Argyll was a prominent opponent of slavery. The pair helped write a letter titled An Affectionate and Christian Address of Many Thousands of Women of Great Britain and Ireland to Their Sisters, the Women of the United States of America, calling for an end of slavery; it attracted signatures from 562,848 British women. The two often hosted the American abolitionist and author Harriet Beecher Stowe when she visited England. The Duchess and Beecher Stowe were friends and maintained a correspondence.

In 1868, the Duchess of Argyll succeeded the Duchess of Wellington as Mistress of the Robes to Queen Victoria, holding the position until 1870, when she resigned due to ill health. Soon after being appointed a member of the newly created Order of the Crown of India, she died in 1878 whilst eating with William Ewart Gladstone in London.