CAMPBELL, Archibald (1682-1761) | HoP Development Site

Family and Education

b. June 1682, 2nd s. of Archibald Campbell, duke of Argyll [S], and Elizabeth, da. of Sir Lionel Tollemache, 3rd bt., of Helmingham, Suff., sis. of Lionel Tollemache^‡, 3rd earl of Dysart [S]; bro. John Campbell, 2nd duke of Argyll [S] (and earl of Greenwich). educ. privately (Alexander Cunningham); Eton 1698; Glasgow Univ. 1699. m. lic. 19 Jan. 1713 (with £30,000), Anne (d.1723), o. surv. da. and h. of Walter Whitfield^‡ of Queen Street, St Margaret’s, Westminster, Mdx., s.p.; 1s. 1da. illegit. with Mrs. Anne Williams (otherwise Shireburn). d. 15 Apr. 1761; will 14 Aug. 1760, pr. May 1761. Douglas, Scots Peerage, i. 378–81; HP Commons 1690–1715, v. 858; Munimenta Alme Universitatis Glasguensis, iii. 166.

Offices Held

Ld. treas. [S] 1705 – 06; PC [S] 1705 – 08; commr. union with England 1706; extraordinary ld. of session [S] 1708 – d.; ld. justice gen. [S] (for life) 1710; PC 1711 – d.; ld. clerk reg.[S] 1714 – 16; ld. privy seal [S] 1721 – 33; kpr. gt. seal [S] 1733 – d.

Gov. Dumbarton castle 1705 – 14; 2nd col. Maccartney’s ft. Mar. 1708 – Mar. 1709, col. 36 Ft. Mar. 1709 – Oct. 1710.

Burgess, Edinburgh 1704; Scot. Rec. Soc. lxii. 30. ld. lt. Midlothian 1715, Haddington 1737 – d.; hered. sheriff, Argyll 1743 – 47; hered. justiciar, Argyll and the Isles 1743 – 47.

Chan. Aberdeen Univ. 1718; Fasti Aberdonenses (Spalding Club), 558. trustee, British Museum 1753 – d.

Parlimentarian

CAMPBELL, Archibald (1682-1761)

Associated with: Inverarary, Argyll; King Street, Westminster; Gt. Marlborough Street, Westminster.London Jnl. xviii. 28, 30.;

Likenesses

oil on canvas by W. Aikman, c.1715, Royal Collection; oil on canvas by A. Ramsay, 1744, National Galleries of Scotland PG 1293; oil on canvas by A. Ramsay, 1748, sold at Bonhams 19 Apr. 2012.

Author

Townend, Graham

Hayton, David

Volume

Lords 1660-1715

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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