Carte-de-visite of 9th Duke of Argyll and wife. Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Carte-de-visite of 9th Duke of Argyll and wife. NPG x31040

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by W. & D. Downey

Campbell, or the Marquess of Lorne, was an MP from 1868 until 1878, where he worked as private secretary to his father, the Secretary of State for India. In 1870, he was one of five British aristocrats who were invited to Balmoral, where the Queen was seeking a British husband for her fourth daughter, Princess Louise. He and Louise were married in 1871. In 1878, Lorne was appointed Governor General of Canada, the office for which he is best remembered. He was... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.

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