Louise Duchess of Argyll
1848 – 1939 · Generation XXXIV · Sculptor · House of Windsor
Louise Duchess of Argyll (1848–1939). Sculptor. The fourth daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert — nicknamed “Little Miss Why” for her inquisitiveness — she showed an early gift for drawing and was permitted to study at the National Art Training School, later taking lessons from the sculptor Joseph Edgar Boehm. She grew impatient with the long court mourning after her father’s death, yet proved an able secretary to the queen from 1866. Her mother opposing a foreign prince, she married John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne, heir to the Duke of Argyll, at Windsor in 1871 — the first sanctioned match of a sovereign’s daughter to a British subject since 1515. As viceregal consort in Canada from 1878 she championed the arts, higher education and women’s equality, and the province of Alberta was named after her. The childless marriage cooled, but they reconciled in 1911. Her statue of Queen Victoria stands at McGill University in Montreal.
Place in the family
- Louise Duchess of Argyll was a daughter of Queen Victoria.
- Louise Duchess of Argyll was the sixth of 9 children of Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Queen Victoria recorded in this archive.
One of 53 people of House of Windsor (from 1917) in this archive. The present house — it renamed itself Windsor in 1917, setting aside the German title Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Line of descent: Owen Tudor → Edmund Tudor → King Henry VII → Margaret Tudor → King James V of Scotland → Mary Queen of Scots → King James I → Elizabeth Stuart → Sophia of Hanover → King George I → King George II → Frederick Prince of Wales → King George III → Edward Duke of Kent → Queen Victoria → Louise Duchess of Argyll.
Parents
- Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1819 – 1861)
- Queen Victoria (1819 – 1901)
Siblings
- Victoria Princess Royal (1840 – 1901)
- King Edward VII (1841 – 1910)
- Alice of the United Kingdom (1843 – 1878)
- Alfred Duke of Edinburgh (1844 – 1900)
- Helena of the United Kingdom (1846 – 1923)
- Arthur Duke of Connaught (1850 – 1942)
- Leopold Duke of Albany (1853 – 1884)
- Beatrice of the United Kingdom (1857 – 1944)