Hugh Campbell, 3rd Earl of Loudoun, KT, PC ( – 20 November 1731) was a Scottish landowner, peer, and statesman. With the

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, Loudoun was the last Secretary of State of the

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. He supported the Union with England of 1707 and was Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland between 1708 and 1713.

Early life and family

Campbell was the oldest son of James Campbell, 2nd Earl of Loudoun, by his marriage to Lady Margaret Montgomerie, a daughter of

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.''

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'', vol. 2 (2003), p. 2406 In 1684, he succeeded his father as

Earl of Loudoun Earl of Loudoun (pronounced "loud-on" ), named after Loudoun in Ayrshire, is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1633 for John Campbell, 2nd Lord Campbell of Loudoun, along with the subsidiary title Lord Tarrinzean and Mauchli ...

, Lord Campbell of Loudoun, and Lord Tarrinzean and Mauchline, which gave him a seat in the unicameral

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as soon as he came of age. While his year of birth is unknown, it can be estimated from the fact that he took his seat on 8 September 1696 and would normally have done so at the age of twenty-one. Loudoun’s brother, Colonel John Campbell, was a Whig Member of Parliament for

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before the Union of 1707, as was another brother, Sir James Campbell, after it. Sir James married Lady Jane Boyle, a daughter of

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, was Colonel of the

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and a Knight of the

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, and was killed at the Battle of Fontenoy (1745). His brother James's son James Mure-Campbell eventually became the 5th Earl of Loudoun.

Career

In April 1697, Loudoun was appointed a Privy Councillor for Scotland. From February 1699 until his death, he was also an Extraordinary

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, having been appointed at an unusually early age.George Fisher Russell Barker
"Campbell, Hugh, third Earl of Loudoun"
in '' Dictionary of National Biography'', vol. 8, online at

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In recommending Loudoun for the

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, the

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wrote to

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From 1703 to 1705 Loudoun was a

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, then from 1705 to 1707 Secretary of State of the

, holding the office jointly with John Erskine, Earl of Mar, the two men becoming the last holders of that office before the

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combined England and Scotland into a single

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. In 1706, he was appointed a Knight of the

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. On 26 October of that year he wrote to Sidney Godolphin, Earl of Godolphin, that "manie of the common people are so much impos'd on us to be against the union in manie places of the Countrie," but he believed that the benefits it would bring would ultimately pacify the dissenting voices. From 1707 he was a

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, with a seat in the

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at Westminster. Loudoun was Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland between 1708 and 1713. In 1715, he fought at the Battle of Sheriffmuir, taking the side of King George I against the Jacobites.

Personal life

On 6 April 1700, Loudoun married his cousin, Lady Margaret Dalrymple (c. 1677–1777), a daughter of

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and Elizabeth Dundas, daughter and heiress of Sir John Dundas of Newliston. They had a daughter and a son: * Lady Margaret Campbell,H. Pirie-Gordon, ed., ''Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry'' (London: Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1937), p. 340 who on 4 August 1728 married John Campbell of

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, son and heir of Daniel Campbell, but died childless on 7 October 1733. *

John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun General John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun (5 May 1705 – 27 April 1782) was a Scottish nobleman and British army officer. Early career Born in Scotland two years before the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain, in which his father Hugh ...

(1705–1782). On 7 February 1707, Loudoun's peerages were regranted by

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, with new remainders to the

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of the first Earl of his own nomination, and in default of that to the heirs male. He died on 20 November 1731 and was succeeded by his son John. On a visit to Scotland,

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met Loudoun's widow in old age and says of her "I was introduced to two ladies of high quality, one of whom (Lady Loudoun) in her ninety-fourth year presided at her table with the full exercise of all her powers..."

James Boswell James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (; 29 October 1740 (New Style, N.S.) – 19 May 1795), was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, born in Edinburgh. He is best known for his biography of his friend and older contemporary the Englis ...

, ''Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides'' (John Murray, 1876
p. 394
(footnote)

Notes

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Earls of Loudoun Knights of the Thistle Members of the Privy Council of Scotland Secretaries for Scotland Scottish representative peers People of the Jacobite rising of 1715

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