CAMPBELL (Archibald), first duke of Argyle, son to the preceding, was an active promoter of the revolution. He came over with the Prince of Orange; was admitted into the convention as Earl of Argyle, tho' his father's attainder was not reversed; and in the claim of rights the sentence against him was declared to be, what most certainly it was, a reproach upon the nation. The establishment of the crown upon the Prince and Princess of Orange being carried by a great majority in the Scottish convention, the earl was sent from the nobility, with Sir James Montgomery and Sir John Dalrymple from the barons and boroughs, to offer the crown, in the name of the convention, to their Majesties, and tendered them the coronation oath; for which, and many other eminent services, he was admitted a member of the privy council, and, in 1690, made one of the Lords of the Treasury. He was afterwards
Campbell. terwards made a colonel of the Scots horse guards; and, in 1694, one of the extraordinary Lords of Session. He was likewise created Duke of Argyle, Marquis of Kintyre and Lorn, Earl of Campbell and Cowell, Viscount of Lochow and Glengla, Lord Inverary, Mull, Moyven, and Terrey, by letters-patent, bearing date at Kensington the 23d of June 1701. He sent over a regiment to Flanders for king William's service, the officers of which were chiefly of his own name and family, who bravely distinguished themselves through the whole course of the war. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Lionel Talmath of Helmingham in the county of Suffolk, by Elizabeth duchess of Lauderdale his wife, daughter and heir of William Murray earl of Dysart, by whom he left issue two sons and a daughter; namely, John duke of Argyle, the subject of the next article; Archibald, who succeeded his brother as Duke of Argyle; and Lady Anne, married to James Stuart, second earl of Bute, by whom she had the present earl.