[Illustration: _From a_] AGE 6. [_Painting._]
[Illustration: _From a Picture by_] AGE 18. [_F. Winterhalter._]
[Illustration: _From a Photo by_] PRESENT DAY. [_Byrne & Co.,
Richmond._]
THE DUKE OF
ARGYLL.
Born 1823.
AT the age of eight-and-twenty the Duke of Argyll, who had succeeded to
the dukedom four years earlier, was already well known as a writer, a
politician, and a public speaker, and as one who took keen interest in
all Scottish questions which came before the public. At this age, also,
he was elected Chancellor of the University of St. Andrews, and was
already, what he has since remained, one of the most prominent figures
in the House of Lords. The Duke, who has held many of the highest
offices, in various Governments, was, at the age at which he is
represented in our second picture, Secretary of State for India under
Mr. Gladstone. But as a politician the Duke's position is not easy to
define; he has been described as "Whig by family, Liberal by intellect,
Independent by nature, and Conservative by inclination." But it is in
questions of science and theology rather than in politics that the
Duke's name is known, and his most celebrated book, "The Reign of Law,"
was considered by Darwin himself so powerful an attack upon the Theory
of Descent as to call for special refutation.
[Illustration: _From a Drawing by_] AGE 28. [_J. E. Swinton._]
[Illustration: _From a Photo. by_] AGE 45. [_Messrs. Elliott & Fry._]
[Illustration: _From a Photo. by_] AGE 67. [_Messrs. Elliott & Fry._]