Campbell

Clan Diarmid - Campbell

St. Conan's Church, Loch Awe

Cawdor Castle, Inverness-shire - Campbell of Cawdor

THE CAMPBELLS OF ARGYLL

DIARMID
O'DUIBHNE is regarded as the progenitor of the clan Duibhne or the Clan Campbell. According to legend, he slew the Great Boar of Caledon. Through him the clan claims descent from a succession of Irish and Dalriadic Kings and heroes.

Sir ARCHIBALD
Gillespie (Gillespie) acquired the Lordship of Lochawe by marriage to Eva, heiress to Paul O'Duin, the King's treasurer - thus called Paul Insporran. Therefrom comes the claim of stemming from Diarmid o'Duibhne on the female side.

ARCHIBALD
Gillespie witnessed a charter of of the lands of the burgh of Newburgh Alexander III in 1246

Sir CAILEIN MÓR
Great Colin
1280-1294 sixth in descent from the above mentioned Gillespie. From him the patronymic "Mac Cailein Mor" was derived as he added largely to his estates. In 1280 he was nighted by King Alexander III, the early titles were "de Ergadia" and Lords of Lochow. Sir Colin married a lady of the name of Sinclair, by whom he had five sons. From his island stronghold of Innischonnaill or Inchconnell (Innischonnel) he was already effectively dominating Lochawe and its surroundings in the very heart of Argyll. He died, 1294, slain in a fight with the MacDougalls of Lorne at the Red Ford in Lorn and lies buried at nearby Kilchrenan. This death is said to have occasioned bitter feuds betwixt the houses of Lochow and Lorn for a long period of years, which were put to an end to by the marriage of the daughter of the Celtic proprietor of Lorn, with John Stewart of Innermeath about 1386.

Sir NEIL
1294-
after 1320 eldest son of Sir Calein Mor. In the record of the parliament of Robert the Bruce held in 1320, the name of the then head of the family, entered as Sir Nigel de Campo Bello. He first swore fealty to Edward I, but afterwards joined Robert the Bruce and married his sister Mary Bruce. By his wife Sir Neil had three sons - Sir Colin, John and Dugal. Neil was appointed Constable of the Royal Castle of Dunoon on the Clyde in Cowal. To his family went many of the lands in Perthshire which had formerly belonged to to David de Strathbogie, 11th Earl of Atholl, whose title was bestowed on Neil's 2nd son, John Campbell. Sir Neil's widow was married to Sir Alexander Fraser, Chamberlain of Scotland under Robert the Bruce. Sir Neil's next brother Donald was the progenitor of the Campbells of Loudon.

Sir COLIN OIG
-1343 son of Sir Neil, received a charter from Robert the Bruce, his uncle dated Arbroath, 1316, married to a wife of the house of Lennox, they had three sons and a daughter. He obtained a charter from his uncle, King Robert Bruce, of the lands of Lochow and Artornish, dated at Arbroath, 10th February 1316, in which he is designated Colinus filius Cambel, militis. As a reward for assisting the Steward of Scotland in 1334 in the recovery of the castle of Dunoon, in Cowal, Sir Colin was made hereditary governor of the castle, and has the grant of certain lands for the support of his dignity. Sir Colin died about 1343.

GILLESPIE
Sir Archibald
1343-1372 son of Colin Oig, was given more lands due to his loyalty to David II. married twice, and had three sons, Duncan, Colin and David, and a daughter, who was married to Duncan Macfarlane of Arrochar. It was probably him who entertained Malcolm MacLeod when the latter saved a Campbell clansman who had been sentenced to be crushed to death by a great bull. Gillespie had promised him the man's life if he could save it from the bull and so MacLeod took the bull by it's horns and to cries of "Hold Fast" defeated it. Colin, the second son, was designed of Ardkinglass and of his family, the Campbells of Ardentinny, Dunoon, Carrick, Skipnish, Blythswood, Shawfield, Rachan, Auchwillan and Dergachie are branches.

Sir COLIN
1372-1413 Cailein Iongantach, "the wonderful" son of Sir Archibald (according to Fitzroy Maclean he was a son of Colin Oig) according to some source he was second son of Gillespie and younger brother of Duncan. In that case he would have reigned for Duncan durhing his stage as hostage in England.

Sir DUNCAN
1413-1453 son of Sir Colin or of Gillespie, known as "Abn Adh", "the Fortunate". He was the first of the family to assume the designation of Argyll, was Lord Campbell prior to 1427, married to
¹ Marjory Stewart, the daughter of Regent Robert, Duke of Albany by whom he had three sons - Celestine, who died before him; Archibald, who also predeceased him, but left a son; and Colin, who was the first of Glenorchy, and ancestor of the Breadalbane family.
² Margaret Stewart, daughter of Sir John Stewart of Blackhall and Auchingown or Ardgowan on the Clyde in Renfrewshire (natural son of Robert III.) They had three sons, namely, Duncan, who according to Crawford, was the ancestor of the house of Auchinbreck, of whom are the Campbells of Glencardel, Glensaddel, Kildurkland, Kilmorie, Wester Keams, Kilberry and Dana; Neil, progenitor, according to Crawford, of the Campbells of Ellengreig and Ormadale; and Arthur or Archibald, ancestor of the Campbells of Ottar, now extinct. According to some authorities, the Campbells of Auchinbreck and their cadets, also Ellengreig and Ormadal, descend from this the youngest son, and not from his brothers.
He was one of the hostages taken in 1424 to guarantee the payment of the sum of £40.000 Sterling for the expense of the imprisonment of James I in England. Duncan was found to be worth fifteen hundred merks-a-year. In 1445 he became a Lord of Parliament under the title of Lord Campbell. By King James he was appointed one of his privy council, and constituted his justiciary and lieutenant within the shire of Argyll.
Originally the Glenorchy area was inhabited by Clan MacGregor but as they held the land "under god" and had no charter from the King, confirming it, Duncan managed to claim and receive the land by royal charter. Subsequently in 1432 he gave Glenorchy to his younger son, Sir Calein Dubh - Black Colin, 1st laird of Glenorchy who became progenitor of the Campbells of Breadalbane and guardian of Colin Earl of Argyll during the latter's minority. Due to his pilgrimage to Rome he was known as Colin dubh na Rhoime. He died in 1453 and was buried at Kilmun.

COLIN
1453-1493 son of Archibald Roy, 2nd son of Sir Duncan, created Earl of Argyll in 1457, married to Isabel heiress to John Stewart, 3rd Lord of Lorne and thus added part of the lordship of Campbell in the parish of Dollar to his titles. He did not, as is generally stated, acquire by this marriage any part of the lordship of Lorn (which passed to Walter, brother of John, the fourth Lord Innermeath, and heir of entail), but obtained that lordship by exchanging the lands of Baldunning and Innerdunning, etc. in Perthshire, with the said Walter. In 1457 he was by James III. created Earl of Argyll and appointed Royal Lieutenant. In 1470 he was created baron of Lorn, and in 1481 he received a grant of much of Knapdale including the Keepership of Castle Sween or Sweyn, which had previously been held by the Lord of the Isles. Though Chancellor of Scotland, Royal Lieutenant for the West and Master of the King's Household, he readily joined Douglas, Earl of Angus, the Homes and the Hepburns in the plot that led to the slaying of King James III. at Sauchieburn, near Stirling, 1488. In 1484 he kinapped the child heir of the Lordship of the Isles, Donald Dubh after the Battle of Bloody Bay off Mull. He died in 1493. His younger son, Thomas, was the ancestor of the Campbells of Lundie, in Forfarshire. Another daughter was married to Torquil Macleod of the Lewis.

GILLESPIE
Archibald 1493-1513 2nd Earl, elder son of Colin, in 1498 King James IV. made him Lieutenant of the Isles, with powers to revoke charters and feu lands, a position of strength of which Archibald being also Justice-General made the fullest use excepting only the island of Isla, and lands of North and South Kintyre. Some months later, he was appointed keeper of the castle of Tarbert, and bailie and governor of the king's lands in Knapdale. From this period the great power formerly enjoyed by the Earls of Ross, Lords of the Isles, was transferred to the Earls of Argyll and Huntly; the former having the chief rule in the south isles and adjacent coasts. At the fatal battle of Flodden, 9th September 1513, he and his brother-in-law, the Earl of Lennox, commanded the right wing of the royal army, and with King James IV, were both killed. By his wife, Lady Elizabeth Stewart, eldest daughter of John, first Earl of Lennox, he had four sons and five daughters. Archibald, his second son, had a charter of the lands of Skipnish, and the keeping of the castle thereof, 13th August 1511. His family ended in an heir-female in the reign of Mary. Sir John Campbell, the third son, at first styled of Lorn, and afterwards of Calder, married Muriel, daughter and heiress of Sir John Calder of Calder, (now Cawdor), near Nairn. Archibald's daughter Elisabeth was married to Lauchlan Cattanach Maclean of Dowart who later left her on Lady's Rock to drown her ca. 1497 but she escaped and Lachlan was later assasinated by Sir John Calder of Calder.

COLIN
1513-1535 3rd Earl, son of Archibald. He was married to Lady Jane Gordon, eldest daughter of Alexander, third Earl of Huntly, they had three sons and a daughter. Their sons were, Archibald, fourth Earl of Argyll; John, ancestor of the Campbells of Lochnell, of which house the Campbells of Balerno, and Stonefield are cadets; and Alexander, dean of Moray. Colin was, immediately after his accession to the earldom, appointed by the council to assemble an army and proceed against Lauchlan Maclean of Dowart, and other Highland chieftains, who had broken out into insurrection, and proclaimed Sir Donald of Lochalsh Lord of the Isles. Owing to the powerful influence of Argyll, the insurgents submitted to the regent, after strong measures had been adopted against them. In 1517 Sir Donald of Lochalsh again appeared in arms, but being deserted by his principle leaders, he effected his escape. Soon after, on his petition also in 1517 Colin was appointed Royal Lieutenant over all the Isles and adjacent mainland by Regent Albany. For some years the Isles remained peaceful and Colin employed this interval in extending his influence among the chiefs and in promoting the sway and importance of his clan, being assisted thereto by his brothers, Sir John Calder of Calder, so designed after his marriage with the heiress, and Archibald Campbell of Skipnish. On the escape of king James V, then in his seventeenth year, from the power of the Douglass, in May 1528, Colin was one of the first to join his majesty at Stirling. He afterwards received an ample confirmation of the hereditary sheriffship of Argleshire and of the offices of justiciary of Scotland and master of the household, by which these offices became hereditary in his family. He had the commission of justice-general of Scotland renewed 25th October 1529. Colin died either in 1535 or in 1530.

GILLESPIE ROY
red Archibald 1535-1558 4th Earl, son of Colin, joined the first Covenant in 1557, at twice married
¹ to Lady Helen Hamilton, eldest daughter of James, Earl of Arran, mother of the 5th Earl
² to Lady Mary Graham, only daughter of William, third Earl of Menteith, mother of the 6th earl and two daughters, their daughter Janet married first Eachann Og Maclean of Duart and probably on the latter's death to Tormod MacLeod.
He must also have was been married to Catherine Maclean, daughter of Hector (Mor ?) or Hector Og Maclean of Duart or rather Hector 12th Maclean of Duart.
In 1558 he sent a large fleet to Roag in the Isle of Skye to make a contract of marriage probably of one of his sons and Mary MacLeod. His expedition however was killed after having been entertained by Iain Dubh MacLeod, the usurping chief of the day.
There was a suspicion at the privy council, probably shared in by James V himself, that many of the disturbances in the Isles were secretly formented by the Argyll family, who in due course received the lands forfeited by the other chiefs. Alexander of Isla, being summoned to answer certain charges of Argyll, made his appearance at once, and gave in to the council a written statement, in which, among other things, he stated that the disturbed state of the Isles was mainly caused by the late Earl of Argyll and his brothers, Sir John Campbell of Calder, and Archibald Campbell of Skipnish. Archibald was summoned before James V, to give an account of the duties and rental of the Isles received by him, and was soon after his arrival imprisoned. He was liberated soon, but James V deprived him of the offices he still held in the Isles, some of which were bestowed on Alexander of Isla. After the death of James V he appears to have regained his authority over the Isles. He died in August 1558. He was twice married.

GILLESPIE DONN
brown Archibald 1558-1575 5th Earl, son of Archibald by his 1st wife, died without issue,
Archibald was educated under the direction of Mr John Douglas, his father's domestic chaplain, and the first Protestant Archbishop of St Andrews, and distinguished himself as one of the most able among the Lords of the Congregation. In the transactions of their times the earl and his successors took prominent parts.
The earl had married
¹ Jean, natural daughter of James V by Elizabeth daughter of John, Lord Carmichael, but does not seem to have lived on very happy terms with her, as we find that John Knox, at the request of Queen Mary, endeavoured, on more occasions than one, to reconcile them after some domestic quarrels. Her majesty passed the summer of 1563 at the earl's house in Argyleshire, in the amusement of deer-hunting. His countess, Queen Mary's half-sister, having died without issue, was buried in the royal vault in the abbey of Holyrood-house.
² Lady Johanna or Joneta Cunningham, second daughter of Alexander, fifth Earl of Glencairn, but as she had no children. Archibald died on the 12th of September 1575, aged about 43 and was succeeded in his estates and title by his brother.

COLIN
1575-1584 6th Earl younger son of Archibald 4th Earl by his 2nd wife. He married, 1st, Janet, eldest daughter of Henry, first Lord Methven, without issue; 2ndly Lady Agnes Keith, eldest daughter of William, fourth Earl Marischal, widow of the Regent Moray, by whom he had two sons, Archibald, 7th Earl of Argyll, and the Hon Sir Colin Campbell of Lundie, created a baronet in 1627.
On the 28th of January 1581, with the king and many of the nobility, Colin subscribed a second Confession of Faith. He died in October 1584, after a long illness.

GILLESPIE GRUAMACH
Archibald the Grim 1584-1619 7th Earl, son of Colin, 6th Earl, In 1594, although then only eighteen, he was appointed king's lieutenant against the popish Earls of Huntly and Errol, who had raised a rebellion. In 1599, when measures were in progress for bringing the chiefs of the Isles under subjection to the king, the Earl of Argyll and his kinsman, John Campbell of Calder, were accused of having secretly used their influences to prevent Sir James Macdonald of Dunyveg and his clan from being reconciled to the government. He reduced the MacGregors, who were already under the ban of law, under their Chief Alasdair Macgregor of Glenstrae in 1603. The latter had made an irruption into the Lennox, and after defeating the Colquhouns and their adherents at Glenfruin, with great slaughter, plundered and ravaged the whole district, and threatened to burn the town of Dumbarton. Archibald had long before become the king's lieutenant in the "bounds of the clan Gregor", and he was answerable for all their excesses. It is said that instead of controlling them he to stirred them up to acts of violence and aggression against his own personal enemies, of whom the chief of the Colquhouns was one thus preparing the destruction of both clans. However, this may be, the execution of the severe statutes which were passed against the Macgregors after the conflict at Glenfruin, was intrusted to the Earls of Argyll and Athole, and their chief, with some of his principle followers, was enticed by Argyll to surrender to him, on condition that they would be allowed to leave the country. Argyll received them kindly, and assured them that though he was commanded by the king to apprehend them, he had little doubt he would be able to procure a pardon, and, in the meantime, he would send them to England under an escort, which would convey them off Scottish ground. It was Macgregor's intention, if taken to London, to procure if possible and interview with the king; but Argyll prevented this; yet, that he might fulfil his promise, he sent them under a strong guard beyond the Tweed at Berwick, and instantly compelled them to retrace their steps to Edinburgh, where they were executed 18th January 1604. How far there may have been deceit used in this matter, - whether, according to Birrel, Argyll "keipit ane Hielandman's promise; in respect he sent the gaird to convey him out of Scottis grund, but thai were not directit to pairt with him, but to fetch him bak agane"; or whether their return was by orders from the king, cannot at the present time be ascertained.
In 1607 Archibald was granted the Crown tenancy of Kintyre forfeited by the MacDonalds. He also received Jura and at once set about hunting down and evicting any MacDonalds still remaining there. He forced Sir James MacDonald of Islay to surrender to the Crown in 1614. In 1616 his younger son became Lord of Kintyre. The frequent insurrections which occurred in the South Isles in the first fifteen years of the seventeenth century have also been imputed by Mr Gregory to Argyll and the Campbells, for their own purposes. The proceedings of these clans were so violent and illegal, that the king became highly incensed against Clan Donald, and finding, or supposing he had a right to dispose of their possessions both in Kintyre and Isla, he made a grant of them to the Earl of Argyll and the Campbells. This gave rise to a number of bloody conflicts between the Campbells and the Clan Donald, in the years 1614, 1615, and 1616, which ended in the ruin of the latter, and for the details of which, and the intrigues and proceedings of the Earl of Argyll to possess himself of the lands of that clan.
He was married
¹ a lady, to whom Sir William Alexander, afterwards Earl of Stirling, inscribed his "Aurora" in 1604, after her death
² Anne, daughter of Sir William Cornwall of Brome, ancestor of the Marquis Cornwallis. This lady was a Catholic, and although the earl was a warm and zealous Protestant when he married her, she gradually drew him over to profess the same faith as herself. After the year 1615, as Gregory remarks, his personal history presents a striking instance of the mutability of human affairs. In that year, being deep in debt, he went to England; but as he was the only chief that could keep the MacDonalds in order, the Privy Council wrote to the king urging him to send him home; and in his expedition against the Clan Donald he was accompanied by his son, Lord Lorn. In 1618, on pretence of going to the Spa for the benefit of his health, he received from the king permission to go abroad; and the news soon arrived that the earl, instead of going to the Spa, had gone to Spain; that he had there made open defection from the Protestant religion, and that he had entered into very suspicious dealings with the banished rebels, Sir John Macdonald and Alister MacRanald of Keppoch, who had taken refuge in that country. On the 16th of February he was openly declared rebel and traitor, at the market cross of Edinburgh, and remained under this ban until the 22nd November 1621, when he was declared the king's free liege. Nevertheless, he did not venture to return to Britain during the reign of James VI. and died soon after his arrival in London, 1638 aged 62. From the time of his leaving Scotland, he never exercised any influence over his great estates; the fee of which had, indeed, been previously conveyed by him to his eldest son, Archibald, Lord Lorn, afterwards, eighth Earl of Argyll. By his first wife he had, besides this son, four daughters. By his second wife, the earl had a son and a daughter, viz, James, Earl of Irvine, and Lady Mary, married to James, second Lord Rollo.

ARCHIBALD
1619-1661
He met his end with dignity saying
"I set the crown on the King's
head, he hastens me now
to a better crown than his." 8th Earl, son of Archibald the Grim, Lord of Lorne, created Marquess of Argyle in 1641, when Charles I. visited Scotland and sought to calm the political crisis He already succeeded to his father's duties as Chief in 1619 as Archibald the Grim had preferred to leave to the spanish Netherlands. As he was ill-favoured with crooked features and a squint which led him to be called "The gleyed Argyll". While Montrose supported the Covenant in the east, he was their western leader. (Montrose changed sides in 1644). After the defeat of the Royalists he was awarded £15,000 for the damage to his property. In 1648 the more extreme Covenanters who had opposed the Engagement then marched to Edinburgh and overthrew the Government leaving their leader, Argyll in effect as master of Scotland. He received Cromwell in Edinburgh. He had the 18 year old son of Charles I. proclaimed King in Edinburgh. Archibald was the first to arrange himself with Cromwell and after the latter's death and the King's restauration he duly made his way to London to offer Charles II. his service. He was sent to Edinburgh and charged for high treason and beheaded with the "Maiden", at the cross of Edinburgh, May 27, 1661, his title and lands being forfeited. By his wife, Lady Margaret Douglas, second daughter of William Douglas, second (?) Maquis of Douglas, he had two sons, Archibald ninth Earl of Argyll, and Lord Neil Campbell, of Ardmaddie.

ARCHIBALD
1661-1685 9th Earl, son of Archibald, 8th Earl, Charles II, in 1663 restored to him the estates and the title of his father as Earl of Argyll. Archibald was married
¹ to Lady Mary Stuart, eldest daughter of James, fifth Earl of Moray
² to Lady Anna Mackenzie, second daughter of Colin MacKenzie, 1st Earl Seaforth, widow of Alexander, first Earl of Balcarres on 28th January 1670. By the latter, he had no issue; but by the former he had four sons and three daughters.
In 1685 he was beheaded for his part in the Monmouth Rebellion. Having set out from Holland with three ships and three hundred men, Argyll landed in Kintyre in May 1685. Collecting a couple of thousand of his clansmen he soon managed to seize the Campbell castle of Ardkinglas on the eastern shore of Loch Fyne. Thence he headed southwards by way of the Gareloch in an attempt to reach the Lowlands. In anticipation of his landing the Privy Council had already despatched a body of MacDonalds, Macleans and Athollmen, led by the Earl of Atholl with the title of Lord Lieutenant of Argyll. Confronted with this force Argyll's Campbells soon dispersed and their chief was taken prisoner. Being already under sentence of death from his previous conviction of 1681, he was carried off to Edinburgh and executed there on 30 June, his head being afterwards placed on the very same spike in the Tolbooth as that of his father twenty-five years earlier.

ARCHIBALD
1685-1703 10th Earl, son of Archibald, 9th Earl, He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Lionel Tollmash, by whom he had two sons, the elder being the celebrated Duke of Argyll and Greenwich. On the 21st June 1701 he was created Duke of Argyll, Marquis of Lorn and Kintyre, Earl of Campbell and Cowal, Viscount of Lochow and Glenila, Baron Inverary, Mull, Morvern, and Tiree for his service by William of Orange having played an active part in bringing the Dutch William to the throne. He was one of the commissioners deputed from the Scots Parliament, to offer the crown of Scotland to the Prince, and to tender him the coronation oath. For this and other services, the family estates, which had been forfeited, were restored to him. He was appointed to several important public offices, and in 1696, was made colonel of the Scots horse-guards, afterwards raising a regiment of his own clan, which greatly distinguished itself in Flanders. No less than 2,500 of his clansmen in 1689 occupied Duart Castle, the stronghold of Clan Maclean. He died 28th September 1703.

IAN RUAIDH CEAN
Red JOHN of the Battles
1703-1743 2nd Duke of Argyll and Duke of Greenwich. John, a steady patriot and celebrated general, the eldest son of the preceding, was born October 10, 1678. Soon after the death of his father in 1703, he was sworn of the privy council, made captain of the Scots horse-guards, and appointed one of the extraordinary lords of session. He was soon after sent down as high commissioner to the Scots parliament, where, being of great service in promoting the projected Union, for which he became very unpopular in Scotland, he was, on his return to London, created a peer of England by the titles of Baron of Chatham, and Earl of Greenwich. In summer 1705 despatched to Edinburgh as the Queen's Commissioner to secure from the Scottish Parliament authority to open negotiations for a treaty of union. In 1706 he made a campaign in Flanders, under Marlborough he fought at Blenheim, Ramillies and Oudenaarde. Later he became General of the British forces in Spain and Ambassador Extraordinary to that country. On December 20, 1710, he was installed a knight of the Garter. On the accession of George I, he was made groom of the stole, and one of the nineteen members of the regency, nominated by his majesty. On the king's arrival in England, he was appointed general and commander-in-chief of the king's forces in Scotland.
At the breaking out of the Rebellion in 1715, as commander-in-chief in Scotland, he defeated the Earl of Mar's army at Sheriffmuir, and forced the Pretender to retire from the kingdom. In March 1716, after putting the army into winter quarters, he returned to London but was in a few months to the surprise of all, divested of all his employment's. In the beginning of 1718 he was again restored to favour, created Duke of Greenwich, and made lord steward of the household. In 1737, when the affair of Captain Porteous came before parliament, he exerted himself vigorously and eloquently in behalf of the city of Edinburgh. A bill having been brought in for punishing the Lord Provost of that city, for abolishing the city guard, and for depriving the corporation of several ancient privileges; and the Queen Regent having threatened, on that occasion, to convert Scotland into a hunting park, Argyll replied, that it was then time to go down and gather his beagles.
In April 1740, he was again deprived of all his offices. To these, however, on the resignation of Sir Robert Walpole, he was soon restored, but not approving of the measures of the new ministry, he gave up all his posts, and never afterwards engaged in affairs of state. This amiable and most accomplished nobleman has been immortalised by Pope in the lines...
"Argyle, the state's whole thunder born to wield,
And shake alike the senate and the field".
He was married to
¹ Mary, daughter of John Brown, Esq. (and niece of Sir Charles Duncombe, Lord Mayor of London in 1708), they had no issue
² Jane, daughter of Thomas Warburton of Winnington, in Cheshire, one of the maids of honour to Queen Anne, they had five daughters. As the duke died without male issue, his English titles of Duke and Earl of Greenwich, and Baron of Chatham, became extinct, while his Scottish titles and patrimonial estate devolved on his brother. He died October 4, 1743; and a beautiful marble monument was erected to his memory in Westminster Abbey.

ARCHIBALD
1743-1761 3rd Duke, younger son of Archibald, 10th Earl, born at Ham, Surrey, in June 1682. He was educated at the university of Glasgow. He married the daughter of Mr Whitfield, paymaster of marines, but had no issue by her.
In 1705 he became lord high treasurer of Scotland; in 1706 he was one of the commissioners for treating of the Union between Scotland and England; and 19th October of the same year, for his services in that matter, was created Viscount and Earl of Isla. In 1708 he was made an extraordinary lord of session, and after the Union, was chosen one of the sixteen representative peers of Scotland. In 1710 he was appointed justice-general of Scotland, and the following year was called to the privy council. When the rebellion broke out in 1715, he took up arms for the defence of the house of Hanover. By his prudent conduct in the West Highlands, he prevented General Gordon, at the head of three thousand men, from penetrating into the country and raising levies. He afterwards joined his brother, the duke, at Stirling, and was wounded at the battle of Sheriffmuir. In 1725 he was appointed keeper of the privy seal, and in 1734 of the great seal, which office he enjoyed till his death. He excelled in conversation, and besides building a very magnificent seat at Inverary, he collected one of the most valuable private libraries in Great Britain. Archibald succeeded his brother on the latter's death and was president of the court that confined James of the Glen on 21.09.1752 saying he had killed the Red Colin (Cailean Ruadh) Campbell of Glenure. He died suddenly, while sitting in his chair at dinner, April 15, 1761.

JOHN
1761-1770 General John Campbell of Mamore, 4th Duke, son of the Hon John Campbell of Mamore, second son of Archibald, the ninth Earl of Argyll (who was beheaded in 1685), by Elizabeth, daughter of John, eighth Lord Elphinstone. He was born about 1693 and in 1720 married to the Hon Mary Bellenden, third daughter of the second Lord Bellenden, and had four sons and a daughter. Before he succeeded to the honours of the family, he was an officer in the army, and saw some service in France and Holland. When the rebellion of 1745 broke out, he was appointed to the command of all the troops and garrisons in the west of Scotland, and arrived at Inverary, 21st December of that year, and, with his eldest son joined the Duke of Cumberland at Perth, on the 9th of the following February. He died 9th November 1770, in the 77th year of his age.

JOHN
1770-1790 5th Duke, son of 4th Duke, born in 1723. He married in 1759, Elizabeth, widow of James, sixth Duke of Hamilton, the second of three beautiful Miss Gunnings, daughters of John Gunning, Esq of Castle Coote, county Roscommon, Ireland. They had three sons and two daughters. In the army he reached the ranks of general in March 1778, and field-marshall in 1796. He was created a British peer as Baron Sundridge of Coomb-bank in Kent, 19th December 1766. He was chosen the first president of the Highland Society of Scotland, to which he made a gift of one thousand pounds in 1806, as the beginning of a fund for educating young men of the West Highlands for the navy. He died 24th May 1806, in the 83rd year of his age.

GEORGE William
1790-1839 6th Duke, son of 5th Duke, born 22nd September 1768. He married, 29th November 1819, Caroline Elizabeth, daughter of the fourth Earl of Jersey. He died 22nd October 1839 without issue.

JOHN Douglas Edward Henry
(Lord John Campbell of
Ardincaple, M.P.)
1839-1847 7th Duke, younger younger son of 5th Duke, born 21st December 1777, thrice married;
¹ in August 1802, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of William Campbell, Esq of Fairfield, who died in 1818
² 17th April 1820, to Joan, daughter and heiress of John Glassel, Esq. of Long Niddry
³ in January 1831, to Anne Colquhoun, eldest daughter of John Cunningham, Esq. of Craigends.
By his second wife he had two sons and a daughter, namely, John Henry, born in January 1821, died in May 1837; George Douglas, who succeeded as eighth duke; and Lady Emma Augusta, born in 1825. He died 26th April 1847.

GEORGE John DOUGLAS
1847-1900 8th Duke, son of 7th Duke, born in 1823, married in 1844, Lady Elizabeth Georgina (born in 1824), eldest daughter of the George Granville Leveson- Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland; issue, John Douglas Sutherland, Marquis of Lorn (M.P. for Argyleshire), born in 1845, and other children. He donated the island of Iona to the Church of Scotland. He and his wife were buried at Iona. His Grace has distinguished himself not only in politics, but in science; to geology, in particular, he has devoted much attention, and his writings prove him to be possessed of considerable literary ability. He is author of "An Essay on the Ecclesiastical History of Scotland since the Reformation", "The Reign of Law", etc. he was made Chancellor of the University of St Andrews, 1851; Lord Privy Seal, 1853; Postmaster-general, 1855-8; Knight of the Thistle, 1856; again Lord Privy Seal, 1853; Secretary of State for India, 1868. The Duke of Argyll is hereditary master of the queen's household in Scotland, keeper of the castles of Dunoon, Dunstaffnage, and Carrick, and heritable sheriff of Argyleshire.

JOHN Douglas Sutherland
1900-1914 9th Duke, eldest of 5 sons of the 8th Duke born in 1845, married to Princess Louise in 1871

NIALL DIARMID
1914-1949 10th Duke, nephew of 9th Duke

IAN 12th Duke, cousin of 10th Duke, It has been foretold, says tradition, that all the glories of the Campbell line are to be renewed in the first chief who, in the hue of his locks, approaches to Ian Roy Cean (John Red Head, viz., the second duke). This prophecy some may be inclined to think, has been royally fulfilled in the recent marriage of the present duke's heir, the Marquis of Lorn, with the Princess Louise, daughter of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. This event took place on the 21st March 1871, amid the enthusiastic rejoicings of all Scotsmen, and especially Highlandmen, and with the approval of knighthood on the Marquis of Lorn, after the ceremony of the marriage, and invested him with the insignia of the Order of the Thistle.