Neil Campbell, M.A. ( gd, Niall Caimbeul) (c.1590 – c.1643/47) was a
Scottish
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clergyman who served in the
Church of Scotland as the
Bishop of the Isles from 1633 to 1638.
[, ''Handbook of British Chronology'', p. 315.]
The son of
Neil Campbell, Bishop of Argyll, he was educated at the
University of Glasgow, obtaining a
Master of Arts degree in 1607.
[, ''Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, volume 7'', p. 349.] He became the
minister
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of Glassary,
Argyll in 1611,
[, ''Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, volume 4'', p. 5.] and married Jean, daughter of Adam Boyd (son of
Thomas Boyd, 6th Lord Boyd) in 1620.
He was elected the bishop of the
diocese of the Isles on 17 December 1633 and was confirmed by
King Charles I on 21 January 1634.
[ He was deprived of the see by the General Assembly on 13 December 1638.][
After having signed the ]National Covenant
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and abjured Episcopacy, he was declared capable of the ministry by the Synod
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on 1 October 1640 and became the minister of Campbeltown
Campbeltown (; gd, Ceann Loch Chille Chiarain or ) is a town and former royal burgh in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It lies by Campbeltown Loch on the Kintyre peninsula. Campbeltown became an important centre for Scotch whisky, and a busy fishing ...
on 10 November 1642.[, ''Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, volume 4'', p. 48.]
He died sometime between 7 October 1643 and 29 April 1647.[
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1590s births
1640s deaths
Bishops of the Isles
Neil Campbell (bishop of the Isles)
17th-century Ministers of the Church of Scotland