THE ARGYLL ROMANCE.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 36, 10 August 1895, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE ARGYLL ROMANCE.

The latest social surprise (writes the London correspoadent of the Otago Daily Times) is the marriage of the Duke of Argyll, a veteran of 72, to Miss M'Neill, an ingenue of 21. The "Yellow- haired Laddie," as the Scots call the chieftain of the Clan Campbell, is a muchlf -married man. His first wife was a daughter of the Duchess of Sutherland, the Queen's intimate friend. She bore him 12 children, and then made room for No. 2, the widow of. Colonel Anson, and daughter of Bishop Olaughton. This lady died last year, and she was taken to Cannes in the Riviera, in compliance with her dying request, and laid beside her first husband. But the legend on her tombstone, a cross of purest marble, is — "The beloved wife of the Duke of Argyll." The marriage was not felicitous. A well-known nobleman, told a friend of mine, some years ago, that both had indomitable wills, and they could not hit it off at all. At one time there was a rumour of a separation. " It was very foolish of Argyll," said the nobleman in question, "to marry a woman of ; he ought to have married some nice soft young girl, and had her trained into his own ways and ideas." This is just what the gentleman was doing himself, but he died before his experiment had finished her education. He, however, left her his entire fortune, the title dying with him. The Duke has the character of being a terrible " boss in his own family." All his daughters are married except the Lady Victoria, who is sadly delicate. She is quite given up to good works. The M'Neills are Highlanders, and as proud of their family as M'Oallum Mohr of his.