Caroline Townshend, 1st Baroness Greenwich (''née'' Campbell, 17 November 1717 – 11 January 1794) was a

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peeress, the daughter and eldest child of

John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll Field Marshal John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, 1st Duke of Greenwich, (10 October 1680 – 4 October 1743), styled Lord Lorne from 1680 to 1703, was a British army officer and politician. He served on the continent in the Nine Years' War ...

, and his wife, the former Jane Warburton.Record for ''Caroline Campbell, Baroness Greenwich'' at ''www.thepeerage.com''
/ref>G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 368. She was a sister of the diarist

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. On 2 October 1742, she married

Francis Scott, Earl of Dalkeith Francis Scott, Earl of Dalkeith (19 February 1721 – 1 April 1750) was a Scottish nobleman. He was the eldest child of Francis Scott, 2nd Duke of Buccleuch by his first wife Jane Scott, Countess of Dalkeith, Jane, daughter of James Dougla ...

(a son of the 2nd Duke of Buccleuch), and took the courtesy title of Countess of Dalkeith. They became parents of

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(1746–1812). Henry was styled Lord Scott of Whitchester after his brother's death, and Earl of Dalkeith after his father's death and succeeded his grandfather as Duke of Buccleuch in 1751. Their other children were: * Caroline Scott (1743–1753) * John Scott, styled Lord Scott of Whitchester (1745–1749) * Campbell Scott (1747–1766) * James Scott (1748–1758) * Frances Scott (1750–1817), who married, as his second wife,

Archibald Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas Archibald James Edward Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas (10 July 1748 – 26 December 1827), was a Scottish politician. Early life He was born Archibald James Edward Stewart, in Paris,G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. Wh ...

, and had children, including the novelist Caroline Lucy Scott Francis died in 1750; on 15 August 1755, Caroline married

Charles Townshend Charles Townshend (27 August 1725 – 4 September 1767) was a British politician who held various titles in the Parliament of Great Britain. His establishment of the controversial Townshend Acts is considered one of the key causes of the Amer ...

(a son of the 3rd Viscount Townshend). They had one child, Anne Townshend (1756 – after 1786), who married twice and had children. On 28 August 1767, Caroline was created Baroness Greenwich (a nod to her deceased father's title,

Duke of Greenwich Duke is a male title either of a monarch ruling over a duchy, or of a member of royalty, or nobility. As rulers, dukes are ranked below emperors, kings, grand princes, grand dukes, and above sovereign princes. As royalty or nobility, they are ...

) in her own right, with a special remainder to her male issue by Townshend. As there were no surviving sons from her second marriage, the title became extinct upon her death in 1794, aged 76. An excoriating sketch of Lady Greenwich's character and her unkindness to her daughter was recorded by Lady Louisa Stuart in her ''Memoire of Frances, Lady Douglas''. A drawing of Caroline by

Thomas Bardwell Thomas Bardwell (1704 – 9 September 1767) was an English portrait and figure painter, art copyist, and writer.National Gallery of Scotland The National (formerly the Scottish National Gallery) is the national art gallery of Scotland. It is located on The Mound in central Edinburgh, close to Princes Street. The building was designed in a neoclassical style by William Henry Playfa ...

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