Sir Robert Campbell, 3rd Baronet of Glenorchy (c.1575 – 17 November 1657) was a Scottish nobleman and landowner, the 9th Laird of Glenorchy and Glenfalloch.

Biography

He was the second son of

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, a powerful

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chieftain and courtier known as 'Black Duncan', and his wife Jane Stewart, daughter of the 4th Earl of Atholl. Seated at

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, Loch Awe, his brother Colin Campbell, 2nd Baronet died in 1640 without a male heir and so his title and estates were passed on to Robert, who had married Isobel Mackintosh, daughter of

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. Sir Robert was a Member of Parliament for Argyll between 1639 and 1649, and was "brought into the very centre of the military, political and ecclesiastical movements of that stormy period". During the

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, he was a

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who fought under his kinsman the

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, thus taking part in the destruction of the

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. He had eight sons and nine daughters, and was succeeded in the Campbell baronetage of Glenorchy by his eldest son

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, who was himself the father of Sir John Campbell, 5th Baronet (later 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland). Sir Robert died in 1657 at the age of eighty-two. The family came to be one of the most feared and powerful Highland clans.

References

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