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292 BREADALBANE A Lord of the Treasury [S.] 1692-96. After the massacre of Glencoe, 10 June 1 695, he was imprisoned for high treason, as having advocated the Stuart cause in the Highlands, but on his explaining that this was only to enable him the better to betray it, he was discharged without a trial. Though always a Whig, he refrained from voting during the time of the Union [S.], but was (at the age of 78) chosen a Rep. Peer [S.] 17 13-15. In the Rising of 1715 he sent 500 men to join the " Chevalier," but escaped punishment. He m., istly, 17 Dec. 1657, at St. Andrew's Wardrobe, London, Mary, da. of Henry (Rich), ist Earl of Holland, by Isabel, da. and h. of Sir Wal- ter Cope, of Kensington, Midx. She d. 8 Feb. 1666. He w., 2ndly, 7 Apr. 1678, Mary, widow of George (Sinclair), Earl of Caithness [S.], 3rd and yst. da. of Archibald (Campbell), Marquess of Argyll [S.], by Margaret, da. of William (Douglas), Earl of Morton [S.]. She d. 4 Feb. 1 690/1. He is often said to have m., 3rdly, Mildred Littler,(") who d. 1746. He d. 19, and was bur. 28 Mar. 17 17, aged 8 !,() having nominated, 14 July 1685, his second s., John, as his successor in the Peerage. [Duncan Campbell, j/y/ff^ Lord Ormelie, being ists. by ist wife, was, on account of his incapacity, passed over in his father's nomination of a suc- cessor. He d. s.p.(^) 1727, aged 67.] EARLDOM [S.] 2. John (Campbell), Earl of Breadalbane and |T Holland, i^c. [S.], 2nd s. by ist wife, and h. under his ' '■ father's nomination, dat. 14 July 1685, being styled Barony of Lisle in 1444 and 1475 to the heirs of the grantees being Lords of the Manor of Kingston Lisle. See also Nairne. (^) She was certainly his mistress, but it is very doubtful if he ever married her. Within 18 months of his death, the Earl made a settlement on "Lady Mary Camp- bell, my daughter by Mrs. Littler." {Scots Peerage). V.G. C") In Macky's Memoirs it is said of him "It is odds, if he lives long enough, but he is a Duke. He is of a fair complexion and has the gravity of a Spaniard, is as cun- ning as a Fox, wise as a Serpent and as slippery as an Eel." G.E.C. "Seems to have united two different sets of vices. . . . Among the hills he had learned the barbarian pride and ferocity of a Highland chief. In the Council chamber he had contracted the deep taint of treachery and corruption . . . No- body who knew him could trust him. . . . The depths of this man's knavery were unfathomable." (Macaulay). V.G. (°) He is sometimes said to have m. Margaret Campbell of Lawers, and to have left male issue. John Campbell, of Fortwilliam, co. Inverness, claimed the title in 1863 on the ground of his descent from this Duncan, which, if proved, would have constituted him h. male of the grantee, to which class of heirs, failing the issue male of the 2nd Earl, the succession had then opened.