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ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 486 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARCHIBALD See also:CAMPBELL , 3rd See also:duke of See also:Argyll (1682–1761), was See also:born at See also:Ham See also:House in See also:Surrey, in See also:June 1682. On his See also:father being created a duke, he joined the See also:army, and served for a See also:short See also:time under the duke of See also:Marlborough. In 1705 he was appointed treasurer of See also:Scotland, and in the following See also:year was one of the commissioners for treating of the See also:Union; on the consummation of which, having been raised to the See also:peerage of Scotland as See also:earl of See also:Islay, he was chosen one of the sixteen peers for Scotland in the first See also:parliament of See also:Great See also:Britain. In 1711 he was called to the privy See also:council, and commanded the royal army at the See also:battle of See also:Sheriffmuir in 1715. He was appointed keeper of the privy See also:seal in 1721, and was afterwards entrusted with the See also:principal management of Scottish affairs to an extent which caused him to be called " See also:king of Scotland." In 1733 he was made keeper of the great seal, an See also:office which he held till his See also:death. He succeeded to the dukedom in 1743. Both as earl of Islay and as duke of Argyll he was prominently connected (with See also:Duncan See also:Forbes of See also:Culloden) with the See also:movement for consolidating Scottish See also:loyalty by the formation of locally recruited highland regiments. The duke was eminent not only for his See also:political abilities, but also for his See also:literary accomplishments, and he collected one of the most valuable private See also:libraries in Great Britain. He died suddenly on the 15th of See also:April 1761. He was married but had no legitimate issue, and his See also:English See also:property was See also:left to a Mrs See also:Williams, by whom he had a son, See also:William Campbell. The See also:succession now passed to the descendants of the younger son of the 9th earl, the Campbells of See also:Mamore; the 4th duke died in 1770, and was succeeded by his son See also:JOHN, the 5th duke (1723–18o6). He was a soldier who had fought at See also:Dettingen and Culloden, and became See also:colonel of the 42nd See also:regiment (See also:Black See also:Watch), and eventually a See also:field See also:marshal.

He sat in the House of See also:

Commons for See also:Glasgow from 1744 to 1761, when on his father's succession to the dukedom he became legally disqualified, as See also:courtesy See also:marquess of Lorne, for a Scottish See also:constituency; he could sit, however, for an English one, and was returned for See also:Dover, which he represented till 1766, when he was created an English peer as See also:Baron Sundridge, the See also:title by which till 1892 the See also:dukes of Argyll sat in the House of Lords. The 5th duke was an active landlord, and was the first See also:president of the Highland and Agricultural Society. In 1759 he had married the widowed duchess of See also:Hamilton (the beautiful See also:Elizabeth See also:Gunning), by whom he had two sons and two daughters. The eldest of his sons, See also:GEORGE (d. 1841), became 6th duke, and on his death was succeeded as 7th duke by his See also:brother JOHN (1777-1847), who from 1799–1822 sat in parliament as member for See also:Argyllshire. He was thrice married, and by his second wife, See also:Joan Glassell (d. 1828), had two sons, the eldest of whom (b. 1821) died in 1837, and two daughters, the second of whom died in See also:infancy.

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