CAMPBELL, John (1723-1806), of Roseneath, Dunbarton.

Campbell joined his father’s regiment, serving with him in Flanders. He owed his seat to Archibald, Duke of Argyll, who looked on him and his brother William as his children,More Culloden Pprs. iii. 162. and with whom he was staying when the news arrived of the Young Pretender’s landing. During the rebellion he raised 1,000 men, with whom he was present at Falkirk and Culloden.J. Fergusson, Argyll in the Forty-five, 16-17, 61, 170-4. On active service in Scotland, he did not vote on the Hanoverians in 1746, when he was classed as Old Whig. With the rest of the Duke of Argyll’s people he voted against the heritable jurisdictions bill, 7 Apr. 1747.HMC Polwarth, v. 235. Re-elected unopposed in 1747, he retained his seat till his father’s accession to the dukedom of Argyll disqualified him from sitting for a constituency in Scotland. He died 25 May 1806.