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ColonelCharles Campbell was a Scottish soldier and politician of the seventeenth and eighteenth century.
He was the third son ofArchibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll, and his wifeMary, daughter ofJames Stewart, 4th Earl of Moray. He was in Holland with his father, and attended the meeting of Scottish refugees at Amsterdam on 17 April 1685.
The same year he accompanied his father on an expedition to Scotland as part ofArgyll's Rising, and was sent ashore when they arrived off the coast of Argyllshire to bring intelligence of the disposition of the gentlemen and common people. He was then sent ashore a second time to levy men but, falling ill, was seized bythe Marquess of Atholl, who by virtue of his justiciary power resolved to hang him, sick or well, at the gate ofInveraray Castle. ThePrivy Council, however, at the intercession of several ladies, stopped the execution, and ordered him to be carried prisoner to Edinburgh. He was brought before theJusticiary Court on 21 August 1685, forfeited on his confession, and sentenced to banishment.
The forfeiture was rescinded in 1689, and in 1700 he was elected a burgh commissioner in theParliament of Scotland forCampbeltown on its elevation to a royal burgh. He held the seat up to the time ofthe Union, a measure which he steadily supported.
He married, probably in 1678, Sophia, second daughter ofAlexander Lindsay, 1st Earl of Balcarres, his father's step-daughter, who was the means of accomplishing the Earl of Argyll's escape from Edinburgh Castle. Of this marriage no descendants in the male line exist. Marriage two to Betty Bowles with issue.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in thepublic domain: "Campbell, Duke of Argyll" by Donald C. V. Campbell, inThe Scots Peerage, volume I (Edinburgh, 1904) edited bySir James Balfour Paul,p. 367.