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60 THE CLAN CAMPBELL.
Bart. ; Ann, to James, Lord Kuthven ; Jean, to
Courtnay, Esq.; and Grace, to John Campbell of
Stonefield, one of the Senators of the College of Jus-
tice. In consideration of his worth, power, and ser-
vices, Archibald, the tenth Earl was, in 1701, by letters
patent from William the Third, created Duke of Argyll,
Marquis of Kintyre and Lome, Earl of Campbell and
Cowall, Viscount Lochow and Glenshira, Lord Inver-
aray, Mull, Morven, and Tyree. The honorary office of
Keeper of the Castles of Dunstaffnage, Dunoon, and
Carrick, had long been in his family. Archibald died
in London, anno 1703.
XLI. John, Duke of Argyll and Greenwich, was
born the 10th of October, 1680, inheriting all the
great and good qualities of his predecessors. He
became the first statesman and warrior of his time,
and is still known as the great Duke John, by the
Highlanders as Ian Kuo. At the age of seventeen he
was made colonel of a regiment of foot in King William's
last war. In Queen Anne's wars he signally distin-
guished himself, and rose to the highest rank in the
army. In 1710 he was Generalissimo of the Queen's
forces in Spain, and in 1715 Commander-in-chief in
Scotland, quelling the rebellion, by the total route of
the Pretender's army at Sheriffmuir, though opposed
by full thrice his numbers. Equally celebrated in the

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