Some account of John Duke of Argyll and his family

SOME ACCOUNT, &o.
James Earl of Bute, my grandfather, married Lady
Anne Campbell, the sister of his two chief friends, John
Duke of Argyll, and Archibald Earl of May; and,
dying early, appointed them guardians of his children.
My father, who went to Eton school at seven years old,
returned no more to Scotland till almost a man ; but
passed his holidays at the home of one of his uncles,
most frequently at that of the Duke, with whose
daughter he was therefore bred up as a brother.
The early history of the Duke and Duchess, a very
singular one, was often told me by my mother, who,
besides the fragments of it that general report and
family tradition could furnish, had gathered its minutest
details from two of their contemporary friends — Lady
Suffolk (concerning whom see Lord Orford) and Mrs.
Kingdon, a remarkable person, still living in my
mother's days, and at past ninety years old retaining all
her faculties, although thought " a little ancient," *
according to Swift, when maid of honour to Queen
Anne.
Mrs. Warburton — respectable young ladies were not
yet styled Misses — Mrs. Jane Warburton, a country
* " Colonel Disney said of Jenny Kingdon, the maid of honour, who
is a little ancient, that the Queen should give her a brevet to act as a
married woman." — Swift's Journal to Stella.