Elizabeth Campbell, Duchess of Argyll


Elizabeth Georgiana Campbell, Duchess of Argyll CI VA was a British noblewoman and abolitionist. Born the eldest daughter of the 2nd Duke of Sutherland by his wife Lady Harriet Howard, in 1844 she married George Douglas Campbell, Marquess of Lorne, eldest son and heir to the 7th Duke of Argyll. Elizabeth became the Duchess of Argyll in 1847 when her husband succeeded his father. They had twelve children, including John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll who in 1871 married Princess Louise, fourth daughter of Queen Victoria.

Lady Elizabeth Georgiana LevesonGower was raised amidst great wealth. Her paternal grandmother, the great heiress Elizabeth Gordon, was suo jure Countess of Sutherland, overseeing estates that spanned 800,000 to one million acres of Scottish Highlands. The Sutherland lands were further augmented with Gordons 1785 marriage to Elizabeths grandfather, George LevesonGower . In 1823, their son George married Lady Harriet Howard, daughter of George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle. Lady Elizabeth LevesonGower was born the following year as their eldest daughter, onMay 1824. Three brothers and two sisters followed.

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