CAMPBELL, Hugh (c. 1673-1731) | HoP Development Site

Family and Education

b. c. 1673, 1st s. of James Campbell, 2nd earl of Loudoun [S], and Margaret, da. of Hugh Montgomerie, 7th earl of Eglinton [S]; bro. of Hon. James Campbell^‡. educ. Glasgow Univ. by 1688. m. 6 Apr. 1700, his cos. Margaret (d.1777) da. of John Dalrymple, earl of Stair [S], sis. John Dalrymple, 2nd earl of Stair, 1s. 2da. KT 10 Aug. 1706. d. 20 Nov. 1731; will pr. 7 Feb. 1732. TNA, PROB 11/650.

Offices Held

PC [S] 1697 – 1708; commr. auditing accts. Treasury [S] 1697 – 98, auditing accts. admiralty [S] 1698 – 99, communication of trade [S] 1698 – 99, exchequer [S] 1698 – 99, treasury [S] 1702 – 04, union with England 1706; extraordinary ld. of session [S] 1699 – 1731; jt. sec. of state [S] 1705 – 08; PC 1707 – d.; ld. kpr. [S] 1708 – 13; high commr. gen. assembly Ch. of Scotland 1722, 1725 – 26, 1728, 1730–1. CSP Dom. 1697, pp. 132, 480; 1698, pp. 66, 321, 405, 407, 431–2; 1702–3, p. 571; Douglas, Scots Peerage, v. 508; London Gazette, 19–22 May 1707.

Burgess, Edinburgh 1704, Glasgow 1713; sheriff, Ayr and principal baillie, Kyle Stewart 1703; ld. lt. Ayr 1715–d. Scot. Rec. Soc. lvi. 299; lxii. 125; CSP Dom. 1703–4, p. 412; SP 54/18/66.

Parlimentarian

CAMPBELL, Hugh (c. 1673-1731)

Associated with: Loudoun Castle, Galston; Privy Gardens, Westminster.

Author

Townend, Graham

Hayton, David

Volume

Lords 1660-1715

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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