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James Scrimgeour Scottish landowner and Constable of Dundee.
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Sir James Campbell of Auchinbreck, 5th Baronet was a Scottish Jacobite politician and landowner. He was Lord Commissioner of Justiciary for the Highlands between 1701 and 1711, and Member of Parliament for Argyllshire between 1703 and 1707. Considered a prominent Argyll laird, the fortune of the Campbells of Auchinbreck had however deteriorated since 1685.
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- ↑ John Duncan Mackie, Calendar State Papers Scotland, 13:2 (Edinburgh, 1969), p. 896.
- ↑ John Duncan Mackie, Calendar State Papers Scotland, 13:2 (Edinburgh, 1969), p. 977.
- ↑ John Duncan Mackie, Calendar State Papers Scotland, 13:2 (Edinburgh, 1969), p. 896.
- ↑ Anne Frater, 'Chaimbeul, Fionnghal', Elizabeth Ewan, Rose Pipes, Jane Rendall, Siân Reynolds, 'New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women (Edinburgh, 2018), p. 83.
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