Archibald Campbell (died 1744) was a clergyman of the

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who served as

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. He was the son of

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by his first wife Lady Vere Kerr; his grandfathers were

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, and

William Kerr, 1st Earl of Lothian William Kerr, first Earl of Lothian of a new creation (1605–1675) was a Scotland, Scottish nobleman. Career Kerr signed the Covenanter, national covenant in 1638 and marched with the Scots into England in 1640, being present when the Engl ...

. He was a student of the

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s and the author of a book ''The Doctrine of the Middle State between Death and the Resurrection'' (1731) in defence of

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. He lived in England for many years and was an associate of English nonjurors including

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, Thomas Brett,

Thomas Deacon Thomas Deacon (2 September 1697 – 16 February 1753) was an English non-juror bishop, liturgical scholar and physician. He was born to William and Cecelia Deacon. After his mother married the nonjuror bishop Jeremy Collier, the young Deacon ...

, and

Roger Laurence Roger Laurence (1670–1736) was an English nonjuring priest and controversialist. Life The son of Roger Laurence, armorer, he was born 18 March 1670, and admitted on the royal mathematical foundation to Christ's Hospital in April 1679, from the w ...

. In the usages controversy he was a staunch defender of the usages and wrote two pamphlets. When Brett engineered a reunion with the non-usager nonjurors in the early 1730s, Campbell, Laurence, and Deacon stood apart and constituted the extreme usager party. In mid-1733, after failing to find assistance from any English nonjuring or Episcopalian Bishops, Campbell proceeded to consecrate Laurence alone, and thereafter both consecrated Deacon. Due to the uncanonical nature of the consecration this breakaway group was never recognised by the regular nonjurors. The Orthodox British Church, as it became known, had congregations in London, Shrewsbury and Manchester, the latter lasting into the first decade of the nineteenth century. Campbell died in London in June 1744.

References

* *''The Later Non-Jurors'', by Henry Broxap

External links

A fuller biography at electricscotland.com
1744 deaths Bishops of Aberdeen British nonjuror bishops Year of birth missing College bishops {{UK-bishop-stub 17th-century Anglican theologians 18th-century Anglican theologians