John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll

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Thomas Gainsborough : John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, oil on canvas, 1767

John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll KT PC (* around 1693 in the House of Argyll , Scotland , † November 9, 1770 in London ) was a Scottish nobleman , general and politician .

Life

John Campbell was the eldest son of John Campbell of Mamore (around 1660 - April 9, 1729) and his wife Elizabeth Elphinstone (1677-1758), daughter of John Elphinstone, 8th Lord Elphinstone and Isabel Maitland, and grandson of Archibald Campbell , 9th Earl of Argyll (1629-1685),

John Campbell joined the British Army and earned the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1712 . He soon became a Member of the House of Commons as MP for Buteshire and Caithness (1713-1715), Elgin Burghs (1715-1722 and 1725-1727) and finally Dunbartonshire (1727-1761) . During his parliamentary term he was appointed colonel of the 39th Regiment of Foot (1737-1738) and the 21st Regiment of Foot (1738-1752) and distinguished himself in the Battle of Dettingen (1741). In the following years he was promoted several times: Brigadier General (1743), Lieutenant General (1747), General (1765) and Honorary Colonel of the North British Dragoons (1752-1770).

When his cousin Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll died in 1761, he inherited his title of nobility. His Scottish peers elected him a representative peer in the House of Lords , for which he gave up his seat in the House of Commons. He was also appointed governor of Limerick . A year later, Campbell was appointed to the Privy Council . In 1765 he was accepted into the thistle order .

In 1720 John Campbell married Mary Bellenden (1705–1736), daughter of John Bellenden, 2nd Baron Bellenden , and Lady Mary Moore in London . Three children emerged from the joint relationship:

literature

  • Peter W. Hammond: The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times Alan Sutton Publishing, Stroud, Gloucestershire 1998.
  • Charles Mosley: Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage (Genealogical Books). Burke's Peerage & Gentry, Stokesley 2003, ISBN 0-9711966-2-1 .
  • Kim D. Reynolds: Aristocratic Women and Political Society in Victorian Britain . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1998, ISBN 0-19-820727-1 .
  • Duncan Warrand et al. a. (Initial), George E. Cokrayne u. a. (Ed.): The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. Extant, extinct or dormancy . Alan Sutton Publishing, Stroud, Gloucester 2000, ISBN 0-904387-82-8 .
predecessor Office successor
Archibald Campbell Duke of Argyll
1761-1770 		John Campbell
personal data
SURNAME Campbell, John, 4th Duke of Argyll
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish nobleman, general and politician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1693
PLACE OF BIRTH House of Argyll, Scotland
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1770
Place of death London