Sir Ilay Campbell, 1st Baronet, Lord Succoth, (23 August 1734 – 28 March 1823) was a Scottish

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, judge and politician. He rose to be Lord President of the Court of Session.

Early life

Campbell's birthplace is given as either Argyll or

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. His mother was Helen Wallace, and his father, Archibald Campbell of Succoth, Principal Clerk of Session to the Scottish Courts. He attended Mundell's School in

and then the

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to study law, graduating in 1751.

Career

from 1757, he was engaged in the Douglas peerage case from 1764 to 1769. in September 1759 Campbell was admitted as an elder of

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parish. On 26th January 1777 his home on the second floor of a tenement in Old Bank Close, Edinburgh, was damaged in a fire. Campbell was appointed

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in 1783 and

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in 1784. He became Member of Parliament for Glasgow Burghs in the same year. He was

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and

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from 1789 to 1808, where he sat as ''Lord Succoth''. On his resignation in 1808, he was created a baronet, and resided at Garscube House, about four miles from Glasgow on the banks of the river

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. There he engaged in the management of his estate, and the performance of his duties as a country gentleman.

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says of him that "he lived like a patriarch in a house overflowing with company, beloved by troops of relations, and courted for his character and hospitality by many friends." Campbell was awarded an honorary doctorate (LLD) from the University of Glasgow in 1784, and elected Lord Rector of the university in 1799. He died at Garscube in 1823 aged 89. Campbell was succeeded by his son Archibald, also a

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under the same title of ''Lord Succoth''. It is worth observing that the title "Lord Succoth" derived from the 1st and 2nd baronets' status as

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rather than as

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. As such, the title "Lord Succoth" was not hereditable. The honorific "

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" references a feudal barony ("of Succoth"). Sir Ilay's descendants remained

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until the extinction of the

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in 2017.

Personal life

In 1766, Campbell married Susan Mary Murray of

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, sister of Alexander Murray, Lord Henderland. Before her death in 1815, they were the parents of: * Margaret Campbell, who married Sir John Connell, Judge of the Admiralty Court. * Jean Campbell (b. 1767), who married John MacNeil of Gigha in 1797. *

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(1769–1846), who married Elizabeth Balfour, daughter of John Balfour, 5th of Balbirnie, in 1794. * Alexander Campbell (1771–1799), WS; he died unmarried. * Anne Campbell (b. 1773), who married Francis Sitwell, MP for

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, son of Francis ( Hurt) Sitwell and Mary Warneford, in 1795. * Susan Campbell (1775–1814), who married Crauford Tait, WS of Harviestoun, in 1795. * Mary Campbell (1777–1820), who married General Sir Charles Shalders. * Elizabeth Glen Campbell (1778–1853), who married William Dalzeil Colquhoun of Garscadden in 1801. Lord Succoth died on 28 March 1823 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son, Archibald.Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.''

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: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 1, page 671.

Descendants

Through his daughter Margaret, he was a grandfather of Arthur Connell

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, a chemist who discovered connellite. Through his daughter Susan, he was a grandfather of

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, the

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Positions of note

* Founder member of the

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(1783) * Director of the Highland Society (1784) * Trustee for the University of Edinburgh and South Bridge

References

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