James Campbell

The Honourable James Campbell (after – ) of Burnbank and Boquhan was a Scottish nobleman of Clan Campbell. He was an officer of the Royal Scots Army and then the British Army, and a politician who sat in the Parliament of Scotland from 1699 to 1702 and as a Whig in the British House of Commons from 1708 to 1710. In 1690 in London, 30-year-old Campbell abducted and married the 13-year-old granddaughter of an unamused Thomas, Lord Wharton. A notorious scandal ensued. Campbell stole away to Scotland, evading punishment. Family and early life Campbell was the fourth son of Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll and his first wife Lady Mary, daughter of James Stuart, 4th Earl of Moray. He was educated at the University of Glasgow. During the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685, Campbell was held in preventive detention in Edinburgh Castle. His father played a leading role in the rising, for which he was later executed.