John Campbell, second duke of Argyll

(1680-1743)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Argyll, John Campbell, Duke of, 1680-1743 NRA: Campbell John (1680-1743) 2nd Duke of Argyll Duke of Greenwich DNB: Campbell, John, second duke of Argyll and duke of Greenwich (1680-1743), army officer and politician LBT ID: DuArgyl2 VIAF ID: 43218622 LOC ID: n83165779	B/BAP: 1680-10-10 DIED: 1743-10-04
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Scottish Whig who led the government army at the Battle of Sheriffmuir; he appears as a character in Scott's Heart of Midlothian (1818).
REFERENCES TO John Campbell, second duke of Argyll: Lady Louisa Stuart to Walter Scott, 11 September 1818 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VI 1818 Chapter VIII 1822 Found 1: ¶ 7 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 15: 1828-32 Found 1: ¶ 1