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Ian, 12th Duke of Argyll
(1937-2001)

Born in London in 1937, Ian Campbell, 12th Duke of Argyll and head of the Clan Campbell, inherited an embarrassing bit of history along with Inveraray Castle.

His mother, Louise Hollingsworth Morris Clews, was the 11th Duke's second wife. His father's third bride, Margaret (Ethel Margaret Whigham, 1912-1993), is remembered today mostly for a notorious photograph depicting her in very intimate circumstances with one and possibly two men neither of whom was her husband. They were divorced in 1963.

In addition to restoring the family name, Ian Campbell restored the magnificent castle after it was badly damaged by fire in 1975. He and his wife Iona Mary Colquhoun had a son Torquhil Ian Campbell and a daughter Louisa Iona Campbell.

The Duke of Argyll's estate ran to the tens of millions of pounds. By setting up trusts for his children, his net estate on his death amounted to a mere £100,000. Inheritance tax was less than £50,000. Without trusts and other schemes, IHT could have totalled more than £10 million.

Torquhil Ian Campbell, 13th Duke of Argyll, married Eleanor Cadbury (she is related to the founders of the famous chocolate company) in 2002. They live in Inveraray Castle.

" . . . "

'This is a Campbell that's been killed. Well, it'll be tried in Inverara, the Campbell's head place; with fifteen Campbells in the jury-box, and the biggest Campbell of all (and that's the Duke) sitting cocking on the bench. Justice, David? The same justice, by all the world, as Glenure found a while ago at the road-side'.
   '...Still, I cried out that he was unjust to the Duke of Argyle who (for all he was a Whig), was yet a wise and honest nobleman.'

Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (1930)


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