CAMPBELL (formerly LIVINGSTONE), James (?1719-88), of Ardkinglas, Argyll, and Glentirran, Stirling.

James Livingstone succeeded his elder brother as heir to Sir James Campbell, his grandfather, in December 1745, taking the name of Campbell, and uniting the estates of two of the leading Whig families in Stirlingshire.Memo. in Cholmondeley (Houghton) mss n.d. (c.1727). An army officer, he fought under Cumberland at Fontenoy and at Culloden, subsequently taking part in the pursuit of the rebel leaders.Albemarle Pprs. passim. He was present at a dinner given for Cumberland at which Duncan Forbes proposed ‘mercy and peace’ as a toast, afterwards warning Forbes that Cumberland had taken offence.Ramsay of Ochtertyre, Scotland and Scotsmen in 18th Cent. i. 53-54. Returning to Flanders with his regiment, he served at Lauffeld in June 1747.Mems. Sir James [Callander] Campbell, 27, 71. Attached, like his grandfather, to the Argyll family, he was returned unopposed for Stirlingshire as a government supporter in July 1747. He died 21 Nov. 1788.