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Persoonlijke gegevens Elizabeth Georgiana LEVESON-GOWER 

• Zij is geboren op 30 mei 1824 in London, Middlesex.
• Zij is overleden op 25 mei 1878 in Carlton House, Westminster, Middlesex, zij was toen 53 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Frederick George Sutherland LEVESON-GOWER en Harriet Elizabeth Georgina HOWARD

Gezin van Elizabeth Georgiana LEVESON-GOWER

Zij is getrouwd met George Douglas CAMPBELL.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 31 juli 1844 te Trentham Hall, Trentham, Staffordshire, zij was toen 20 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Archibald CAMPBELL  1846-1913 
2. John George CAMPBELL  1845-1914
3. Walter CAMPBELL  1848-1889 
4. Edith CAMPBELL  1849-1913 

Notities over Elizabeth Georgiana LEVESON-GOWER

Elizabeth Georgiana Campbell, Duchess of Argyll CI VA (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. Lady Campbell and Beecher Stowe were friends and maintained a correspondence.

The Duchess of Argyll succeeded the Duchess of Wellington as Mistress of the Robes to Queen Victoria, holding the position from 1868 to 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.

Lady Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson-Gower 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 Gordon's 1785 marriage to George Leveson-Gower (later 1st Duke of Sutherland). In 1823, their son George married Lady Harriet Howard, daughter of George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle. Lady Elizabeth Leveson-Gower was born the following year as their eldest daughter, on 30 May 1824. Three brothers and two sisters followed.

With family estates in Scotland and England, Elizabeth's upbringing involved much travel. Their main residence was the lavish Stafford House, London, which they acquired in 1827; they also resided on many country estates. The couple, especially Harriet, led vibrant social lives. She was a political hostess known for her friendship and position as Mistress of the Robes to the young Queen Victoria. In 1833, the 1st Duke died and Elizabeth's father succeeded as 2nd Duke of Sutherland, inheriting extensive property. The historian Eric Richards writes that the first half of the nineteenth century saw the height of the House of Sutherland's social and economic influence, with its wealth being derived from rents, various stocks, and dividends from transportation firms.

While accompanying Queen Victoria to Taymouth Castle in 1842, Lady Elizabeth met George Douglas Campbell, Marquess of Lorne, the eldest son of the 7th Duke of Argyll. They married at the Leveson-Gower estate Trentham Hall on 31 July 1844. The Archbishop of York, Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt, presided over the wedding. The Argyll estate was in debt, so Elizabeth's wealth was much needed. Their union resulted in the further joining of two of Scotland's largest landowning families.

The young couple was given Rosneath by his father at the time of their marriage. Deeply religious, Elizabeth had been raised in the Anglican faith but converted to the Church of Scotland upon her marriage, taking her first communion in the faith later that year. Like many of her predecessors, Elizabeth was a strong supporter of the Scottish Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Argyll and The Isles. The couple possessed similar interest in liberal politics. Elizabeth was dignified and cultured, and Lorne found in his new wife "more than all that had been told me by her numerous friends... On some subjects, excepting philosophy and the natural sciences, she was more widely read than I was at the time."

The Duke and Duchess of Argyll had the following issue:

John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll (6 August 1845 - 2 May 1914); married Princess Louise of the United Kingdom in 1871
Lord Archibald Campbell (18 December 1846-March 29, 1913); married Janey Callendar and had issue including Niall Campbell, 10th Duke of Argyll
Lord Walter Campbell (30 July 1848 - 2 May 1889); married Olivia Clarkson Miln in 1874, and was the grandfather of Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll
Lady Edith Campbell (1849-1913); married Henry Percy, 7th Duke of Northumberland in 1868
Lord George Granville Campbell (25 December 1850-); married Sybil Alexander in 1879
Lady Elizabeth Campbell (b. 1852); married Lt.-Col. Edward Harrison Clough-Taylor in 1880
Lord Colin Campbell (1853-1895); married Gertrude Elizabeth Blood in 1881
Lady Victoria Campbell (22 May 1854 - 6 July 1910)[19]
Lady Evelyn Campbell (b. 1855); married James Baillie-Hamilton in 1886
Lady Frances Campbell (22 February 1858 - 25 February 1931); married the architect Eustace Balfour, brother of the Prime Minister Arthur Balfour
Lady Mary Emma Campbell (1859-1947); married Edward Carr Glyn, Bishop of Peterborough
Lady Constance Harriett Campbell (11 November 1864 - 9 February 1922); married Charles Emmott in 1891
SOURCE: Wikipedia

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