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the utmost deference.
The Duke of Argyll is married to Lady Elizabeth Georgina, second
daughter of George Greville, second Duke of Sutherland, by whom he
has issue five sons and seven daughters. The eldest son, who has
recently allied himself to Royalty, gives promise, as we have already
indicated, of possessing in an eminent degree the talents that have so
much distinguished his ancestors. Both the Marquis of Lorne and his
Royal partner are extremely popular, and the alliance which has been
consummated amid the fervent aspirations of a whole nation, is bound
to raise still higher the influence of the ducal family of Argyll.
Alexander, the second son of the Duke, was born in 1846, and married,
in 1869, Miss Jane Sabella Callendar, ward of his father, and daughter
of the late James Henry Callendar, Esq. of Craigpark, Stirlingshire. The
only other married member of the Duke's family is Edith, his first
daughter, who was espoused by Earl Percy, the eldest son and heir of

the Duke of Northumberland.
For the benefit of the curious in such matters we may mention that the
Duke's titles are, by writ 1445, Baron Campbell; 1457, Earl of Argyll;
1570, Baron of Lorne; by Royal charter, 1701, Duke of Argyll;
Marquis of Lorne and Kintyre; Earl of Campbell and Cowal; Viscount
of Lochow and Glenila; Baron Inveraray, Mull, Morven, and Tory, in
the Peerage of Scotland; 19th December, 1766, Baron Sundridge of
Croombank; May 4, 1776, Baron Hamilton, in the Peerage of England;
Hereditary Master of the Queen's Household; Keeper of Dunoon,
Dunstaffnage, and Carrick Castles; Heritable Lord-Lieutenant of
Argyllshire.
The literature of the Herald's College sets forth that the arms of Argyle
are--Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Girony of eight pieces topaz and diamond
for Campbell; 2d and 3d, pearl, a lymphad, or old-fashioned ship with
one mast, close sails, and oars in action; a diamond with flag and
pennants flying; ruby for the Lordship of Lorne; crest on a wreath, a
boar's head, couped proper, topaz. Supporters, two lions guardant, ruby.
Motto--"Ne Obliviscaris." Behind the arms there are two honourable
badges in saltire, which his Grace's ancestors have borne a long time, as
Great Masters of the King's Household and Justiciaries of Scotland.
The first is a battern topaz, same of thistles, emerald, ensigned with an
imperial crown proper, and thereon the crest of Scotland, which is a
lion sejant guardian ruby, crowned with the like crown he sits on,
having in his dexter paw a sword proper, the pommel and hilt, topaz;
and in the sinister a sceptre of the last. The other badge is a sword, as
that in the lion's paw.
The Duke is proprietor of the greater part of Argyllshire--a county
having an area of 2,432,000 acres, of which only 308,000 are under
cultivation. The greatest breadth of the mainland is about 115 miles;
and from the windings of the numerous bays and creeks, with which
the land is everywhere indented, the county is supposed to have more
than 600 miles of sea coast. His chief seats are--Inverary Castle, on the
banks of Lochfyne; Roseneath Castle, Dumbartonshire; Longniddry,
Haddingtonshire; Halnaker, Sussex; and Argyle House, Camden Hill,

London.

THE RIGHT HON. H. A. BRUCE.
The Right Hon. Henry Austin Bruce is a native of Wales. He was born
at Duffryn, Aberdare, Glamorganshire, and is both by birth and training
a thorough Cambrian. His father, who is still living, was for several
years Stipendiary Magistrate at Merthyr, and once contested that
borough unsuccessfully with Sir John Guest. He was originally a Mr.
Knight--a patronymic which, in 1805, he changed to Bruce, and
afterwards, in 1837, to Pryce. The Member for Renfrewshire is,
therefore, described as the second son of John Bruce Pryce, Esq., of
Duffryn, St. Nicholas, Glamorganshire, by Sarah, the second daughter
of the Rev. Hugh Austin, Rector of St. Peter's, in Barbadoes. Paternally,
he is a nephew of the late Lord-Justice Knight Bruce, who was spared
to see him attain the dignity of Privy Councillor, but not long enough to
witness his admission to the rank of a Cabinet Minister. It may be
added, for the purpose of completing these domestic details, that his
great-grandfather, Mr. Bruce of Kennet, was High Sheriff of
Glamorgan more than 150 years ago; and, further, that he himself has
been twice married, his first wife (to whom he was married in 1846, but
who died in 1852) being Annabella, the only daughter of Richard
Beadon, Esq., of Clifton, Gloucestershire; and his second wife, to
whom he was married in 1854, being Norah, the youngest daughter of
the late Lieutenant-General Sir William Napier, K.C.B., the author of
that matchless military narrative, the "History of the Peninsular War,"
and distinguished also as the brother of the heroic conqueror of Scinde.
The reader will thus perceive