Sir Archibald Campbell of Succoth, Lord Succoth, 2nd Baronet (1 August 1769 – 23 July 1846) was a Scottish

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and judge. His country house was Garscube House, succeeding to the estate in 1823, upon his father's death. He rebuilt the house at Garscube in 1827, to a design by

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. He added Cumlodden, Blairwhoisk, Sommerson and Gartowhern to the family estate. The son of Sir Ilay Campbell and Susan Mary Murray, he was admitted to the

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in 1791, and in 1809 became a Senator of the College of Justice under the judicial title Lord Succoth. A member of the Highland Society (1792), he was elected a Fellow of the

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on 4 June 1821, upon the proposal of Alexander Maconochie.

Family

He married Elizabeth, a daughter of John Balfour and Mary Gordon of Balbirnie, on 8 August 1794.Edward J. Davies, "The Balfours of Balbirnie and Whittingehame", ''The Scottish Genealogist'', 60(2013):84-90. Their second daughter, Elizabeth Anne Campbell, married David Leslie-Melville, 8th Earl of Leven, 7th Earl of Melville. His son, John Campbell, was Member of Parliament for

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. His grandson, Archibald Campbell, 3rd Baronet, was Member of Parliament for Argyllshire.

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1769 births 1846 deaths People from Bearsden Nobility from East Dunbartonshire 18th-century Scottish lawyers 19th-century Scottish judges Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Members of the Faculty of Advocates Succoth Scottish knights Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom {{Scotland-law-bio-stub

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