John Campbell, 3rd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland
KB (10 March 1696 – 26 January 1782), styled Lord Glenorchy from 1716 until 1752, was a British nobleman, diplomat and politician who sat in the
House of Commons
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from 1727 to 1746.
Background and education
Campbell was the son of
John Campbell, 2nd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland
John Campbell, 2nd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland (19 November 1662 – 23 February 1752) a Scottish nobleman born in Breadalbane to John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland and Lady Mary Rich. In 1685 he married Lady Frances Cavendish ...
and Henrietta Villiers daughter of Sir Edward Villiers, knight marshal.
He matriculated at
Christ Church, Oxford in 1711.
Political career
Campbell was
Envoy
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to
Denmark
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from 1718,
[D. B. Horn, ''British Diplomatic Representatives 1689-1789'' (Camden 3rd Ser. 46, 1932)] and
ambassador to the
Russian Empire
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in 1731. He was a Lord of the Admiralty in 1741 until the dissolution of
Sir Robert Walpole
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's government the following year.
He was returned as
Member of Parliament
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for
Saltash
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in
1727
Events
January–March
* January 1 – (December 21, 1726 O.S.) Spain's ambassador to Great Britain demands that the British return Gibraltar after accusing Britain of violating the terms of the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht. Britain ...
and
1734. He was returned as MP for
Orford in
1741
Events
January–March
* January 13 – Lanesborough, Massachusetts is created as a township.
*February 13 – Sir Robert Walpole, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, popularizes the term "the balance of power" in a speech ...
. He was appointed
Master of the Jewel Office
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The Jewel House is a vault housing the British ...
in 1745 and resigned his seat in the House of Commons. He succeeded his father as
Earl of Breadalbane and Holland
Earl of Breadalbane and Holland is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1681 for Sir John Campbell, 5th Baronet, of Glenorchy, who had previously been deprived of the title Earl of Caithness.
Creation
Sir John, as a prin ...
on 23 February 1752 and became a Scottish
representative peer. He was awarded a
DCL from the
University of Oxford
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in 1756, and served as
Justice in Eyre south of the Trent from 1756 to 1765 and
Vice-Admiral of Scotland
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from 1776.
Family
Lord Breadalbane and Holland was married on 20 February 1717 to Lady Amabel de Grey, a daughter of
Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent
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and his wife, the former
Jemima Crew. Lady Amabel died on 2 March 1726 leaving 2 children:
*Henry Campbell (c. 1721 - 12 May 1727).
*
Jemima Campbell, 2nd Marchioness Grey, 4th Baroness Lucas.
The Earl married a second time to Arbella Pershall on 23 January 1730. They also had 2 children:
* George Campbell, Lord Glenorchy (d. 24 March 1744).
* John Campbell, Lord Glenorchy (20 September 1738 – 14 November 1771) (who married
Willielma Maxwell).
References
*
T. F. Henderson, rev. Janet Sorensen, 'Campbell, John, third earl of Breadalbane and Holland (bap. 1696, d. 1782)’, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004 ;online edn, Jan 200
Retrieved 18 January 2011.
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1696 births
1782 deaths
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Knights Companion of the Order of the Bath
Glenorchy, John Campbell, Viscount
Ambassadors of Great Britain to Russia
British MPs 1727–1734
British MPs 1734–1741
British MPs 1741–1747
Scottish representative peers
18th-century Scottish landowners
Ambassadors of Great Britain to Denmark
Masters of the Jewel Office