Argyll,
Duke of Argyll.Born in London and raised in Inveraray Castle in Argyll. Educated at Eton, the University of St. Andrews, and Trinity College, Cambridge. MP for Argyllshire from 1868 to 1879. Married Queen Victoria’s daughter, Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, on 21 March 1871. Appointed Governor General of Canada by Disraeli in 1878. He left Canada in 1883. Helped to found the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1882. Published Canadian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil (1884-1885). Other books include V.R.I.: Her Life and Empire (1901), Passages from the Past (1909), and Yesterday and Today in Canada (1910). In 1900 he became the 9th Duke of Argyll. Biographical information: ODNB. (DD)
Poem title | Date | Periodical | Roles | id # |
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A Legend of Mull | 1875 | Good Words | Poet | 2548 |
Sonnet on a foreign warship’s salute to the Queen’s standard at Osborne, 1875 | 1876 | Good Words | Poet | 2614 |
The Legend of Loch Uisk in the Island of Mull | 1877 | Good Words | Poet | 2640 |
Quebec | 1882 | Good Words | Poet | 3941 |
The Hard Strait of the Feinne | 1883 | Good Words | Poet | 3994 |
Iona, 1885 | 1885 | Good Words | Poet | 4358 |
Irish Peasant’s Soliloquy | 1892 | Good Words | Poet | 4220 |
Highland Courting | 1895-05 | Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine | Poet | 8160 |