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 2IO COMPLETE PEERAGE argyll of Foot Guards (now Scots Guards) 1 782-1 806. Commander in chief in Scotland 1767-78; Major Gen. 1759; Lieut. Gen. 1765; Gen. 1778; Field Marshal 30 July 1796. M.P. (Whig) for Glasgow burghs 1744-61, for Dover 1765-66. Provost of Dunbarton 1754. On 22 Dec. 1766 he was cr. (v.p.) BARON SUNDRIDGE of Coomb Bank, Kent [G.B.], with rem., failing heirs male of his body, to his two brothers in like manner. After his accession to the Dukedom, he was (the ist) President of the Highland and Agric. Soc, Scotland, 1785 till his death. Lord Lieut, co. Argyll 1 794- 1 800. He w., 3 Mar. 1759, in London, Elizabeth, (") Dowager Duchess of Hamilton [S.], 2nd da. of John Gunning, of Castle Coote, CO. Roscommon, by Bridget, da. of Theobald (Bourke), 6th Viscount Bourke of Mayo [I.]. She was b. at Hemingford Grey, co. Huntingdon, and bap. there 7 Dec. 1733 ; was Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Charlotte, 1761-84, and on 20 May 1776 was cr. BARONESS HAMILTON of Hameldon, co. Leicester [G.B.], with rem. of that Barony to the heirs male of her body. She d. 20 Dec. 1790, in Great Argyll Str., aged 57, and was bur. at Kilmun. He, being then the 2nd Field officer in seniority, d. at Inveraray Castle, 24 May, and was bur. 10 June 1806, at Kilmun, aged 82. (") Will pr. Jan. 1807. [George John Campbell, usually spoken of as Earl of Campbell, ist s. and h. ap. of his father, at that time styled Marquess of Lorn, b. 17 Feb. 1763, in London, d. 9 July 1764, at Roseneath, co. Dunbarton.] DUKEDOM [S.] VL EARLDOM [S.] XV. 6 and 15. George William (Campbell), Duke of Argyll, i^c. [S.], Lord Sund- „ ^ ridge, fc'c. [G.B.], 2nd, but ist surv. s. and h., b. at Argyll House, London, 22 Sep., 2ind bap. 20 Oct. 1768. M.P. (Whig) for St. Germans 1790-96. On 3 Aug. 1799 (by the death of his uterine br., the Duke of Hamilton [S.]), he sue, in right of his mother, to the Peerage as BARON Walpole also writes of her, " Her face and person were charming : lively she was, almost to hourderie, and so agreeable that I never heard her mentioned afterwards by one of her contemporaries, who did not prefer her as the most perfect creature they ever knew. " V.G. (*) " It is a match that would not disgrace Arcadia besides, exactly, like antediluvian lovers, they reconcile contending clans — the great houses of Hamilton and Campbell, " writes Horace Walpole, who elsewhere calls her " the picture of majestic modesty. " She was of irreproachable character, and the object of the life long admiration of George III. By her two husbands she was the motlierof4 Dukes and one courtesy Earl. Her portrait was painted by Allan Ramsay. V.G. She was the 2nd of the 3 sisters (of whom the eldest was Countess of Coventry, and the yst. m. Robert Travis, 6 May 1769) who " of surpassing loveliness and captivating manners long reigned supreme in the circles of the beau monde, " See Romance of the Aristocracy, by Sir B. Burke, 1855, vol. i, p. 63. C") His marriage, in Oct. 1793, at Yeovil, Somerset, with ' Lady Mary Taylor, da. of the Earl of Bective, ' is in the Hibernian Mag. V.G.