ARGYLL, iir-gil', GEORGE Joifx DOUGLAS CAMPBELL, eighth Duke of (1523-11;00). lie suc ceeded his father in 1847. At the age of nineteen, while Marquis of Lorne, he wrote a pamphlet entitled .1 Letter to the Peers from a Peer's Son, on the struggle which ended in the disruption of the Scottish Church. In 1848 he published an essay on presbytery, which contains a his torical vindication of the Presbyterian system. On the formation of the coalition ministry by Lord Aberdeen lie was invested with the office of Lord Privy Seal, which he continued to hold in Lord Palmerston's administration. In 1855 he relinquished his office and became Postmaster General. In 1859, on Palmerston's return, he again accepted office. He was secretary of state for India under Mr. Gladstone in 1S68-74, and Lord Privy Seal in 1880-81; he resigned office in 1881, disapproving the Irish Land Bill. In 1574 he had supported the abolition of patron age in the Church of Scotland. hi 1854 lie was
chosen Lord Rector of the University of Glas gow; in 1855 presided at a meeting of the British Asociation in that city, and in 1861 was elected president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He was hereditary master of the Queen's household in Scotland, Chancellor of the University of Saint Andrews, a trustee of the British :Museum, also hereditary sheriff and lord-lieutenant of Argyllshire. Besides numer ous papers on zoology, geology, etc., he wrote 7'8e Reign of Law (1866) ; Primeval Man (186!1); .1 History of the A ntiquities of Iona (1871) ; The Unity of Yalure (18841; a volume of poems. Tice Blirdens of Belief (1894) : and Organic Evohition (1898). Though Argyll is best known by The Reign of Law, which has become a (lassie in the defense of theism, all his work shows very great ability. Ile was also one of the most finished orators of his time.