John Campbell, 3rd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland KB (10 March 1696 – 26 January 1782), styled Lord Glenorchy from 1716 until 1752, was a British politician and diplomat who sat in the

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from 1727 to 1746.

Background and education

Campbell was the son of

John Campbell, 2nd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland John Campbell, 2nd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland (19 November 1662 – 23 February 1752) a Scottish nobleman born in Breadalbane, Scotland, Breadalbane to John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland and Mary Campbell, Countess of Breada ...

and Henrietta Villiers, daughter of Sir Edward Villiers,

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. He matriculated at

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in 1711.

Political career

Campbell was

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from 1718,D. B. Horn, ''British Diplomatic Representatives 1689-1789'' (Camden 3rd Ser. 46, 1932) and

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to the

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in 1731. He was a Lord of the Admiralty in 1741 until the dissolution of

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's government the following year. He was returned as Member of Parliament for

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and

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. He was returned as MP for Orford in

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. He was appointed

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in 1745 and resigned his seat in the House of Commons. He succeeded his father as

Earl of Breadalbane and Holland Earl of Breadalbane and Holland is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1681 for John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, Sir John Campbell, 5th Baronet, of Glen Orchy, Glenorchy, who had previously been deprived of ...

on 23 February 1752 and became a

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. He graduated as a

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(DCL) at the

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in 1756, and served as Justice in Eyre south of the Trent from 1756 to 1765 and

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from 1776.

Family

Lord Breadalbane and Holland was married on 20 February 1717 to Lady Amabel de Grey, a daughter of

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and his wife, the former Jemima Crew. Lady Amabel died on 2 March 1726 leaving 2 children: *Henry Campbell (c. 1721 - 12 May 1727). * Jemima Campbell, 2nd Marchioness Grey, 4th Baroness Lucas. The Earl married a second time to Arbella Pershall on 23 January 1730. They also had 2 children: * George Campbell, Lord Glenorchy (d. 24 March 1744). * John Campbell, Lord Glenorchy (20 September 1738 – 14 November 1771) (who married Willielma Maxwell).

References

* T. F. Henderson, rev. Janet Sorensen, 'Campbell, John, third earl of Breadalbane and Holland (bap. 1696, d. 1782)’, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004 ;online edn, Jan 200

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