Argyll, Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess and 8th Earl of, Lord Campbell, Lord Lorne, Lord Of Kintyre

Argyll, Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess and 8th Earl of, Lord Campbell, Lord Lorne, Lord Of Kintyre

▪ Scottish politician [1607-61]
born 1607?
died May 27, 1661, Edinburgh, Scot.
 leader of Scotland's anti-Royalist party during the English Civil Wars between King Charles I and Parliament. He guided his country to a brief period of independence from political and religious domination by England.

      He was the eldest son of Archibald, 7th Earl of Argyll, and took over the management of the family estates in 1619 after his father had renounced Protestantism and become a Roman Catholic. Entering politics as a privy councillor in 1626, Campbell fell out of royal favour in 1637–38 by calling for the abolition of episcopacy in Scotland and by signing the National Covenant pledging to defend Scottish Presbyterianism against Charles I's attempts to impose Anglican forms of worship. As he gained political ascendancy he earned the bitter enmity of James Graham, 5th Earl of Montrose (Montrose, James Graham, 5th Earl and 1st Marquess of, Earl of Kincardine, Lord Graham and Mugdock), leader of the Scottish Royalists, whom Campbell consistently managed to outmaneuver. Campbell inherited the earldom of Argyll from his father in 1638, and, as part of Charles I's (Charles I) concession to the Covenanters (Covenanter) in 1641, he was created a marquess. He then set about forging an alliance with the Presbyterian-dominated English Parliament.

      While his army was occupying northern England for Parliament in 1644, Argyll remained in Scotland to hold Montrose in check. Montrose defeated him at Inverlochy in February 1645 and at Kilsyth in August, but Argyll helped rout the Royalist general in a decisive battle at Philiphaugh on September 13.

      In 1648, after the Scottish Royalists had met defeat in their invasion of England, Argyll established a new government at Edinburgh and allied himself with the Parliamentarian commander Oliver Cromwell (Cromwell, Oliver). But the execution of Charles I (Jan. 30, 1649) by Cromwell's Independents horrified the Scots and ruined the alliance. In desperation, Argyll allowed the Covenanters to invite Charles I's son to Scotland and on Jan. 1, 1651, crowned him King Charles II. The defeat of Charles II in England in September 1651 caused Argyll to submit to Cromwell.

      When Charles finally came to power in England in 1660, following Cromwell's death, he at once arrested Argyll for collaborating with the Commonwealth and had him beheaded at Edinburgh the following year.

Additional Reading
Argyll's career is recounted in John Willcock, The Great Marquess (1903).

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