John Campbell of Lundy or Lundie (died 1562) was a Scottish lawyer and courtier.
He was a son of Thomas Campbell of Lundy, a son of
Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll and Isabella Stewart, who was a daughter of
John Stewart, Lord Lorne. The lands of
Lundie
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are in
Angus
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.
He was a founder member of the Scottish
College of Justice, and
treasurer for
James V
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.
Campbell was Master of Household to
Mary of Guise
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in 1546, when she lived at
Stirling Castle
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with her daughter,
Mary, Queen of Scots. Guise also stayed at
Falkland Palace in this period in October 1546.
Campbell was Justice Depute in 1546 and held an "ayre" in
Lanark. He went with
Regent Arran and the
Justice Clerk,
John Bellenden of Auchnoule, to hold a justiciary court in Aberdeen in June and July 1552. They were entertained by the court musicians and a fool called Robertson, and Arran's cook Robert Bennet prepared their food.
[James Balfour Paul, ''Accounts of the Treasurer'', vol. 10 (Edinburgh, 1913), pp. xxix-xxxii.]
He died in 1562.
Marriages and children
He married Isabel Gray, a daughter of Andrew, 2nd
Lord Gray, and widow of James Scrimgeour of
Dudhope and of Adam Crichton of
Brunstane
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. His second wife was Agnes Home, widow of
William Sinclair of Roslin.
His children included:
* John Campbell of Lundy, who married Janet Herring, sister of Andrew Herring of Glascune
* Margaret Campbell
References
External links
'Campbell of Lundie', Red Book of Scotland
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Court of Mary, Queen of Scots
Lord High Treasurers of Scotland
1562 deaths
16th-century Scottish people
Masters of the Scottish royal household