House of Argyll and the collateral branches of the clan Campbell, from the year 420 to the present time

178 THE CLAN CAMPBELL.
XIII. Angus Campbell of Asknish, who married
Elizabeth, daughter of John M'Lauchlan, Esq., of
Craiginterve ; by Agnes, daughter of Angus Campbell,
Esq., of Skipnish. By her he had a numerous issue,
of which six sons and four daughters survived him —
1st. Kobert, his heir.
2nd. Duncan, Collector of Excise in Perthshire.
3rd. Archibald, who died unmarried.
4th. Alexander, died young.
5th. Angus, bred to the sea ; perished on board of
the Dodington, East Indiaman, anno 1750.
6th. James, an Officer of Marines.
His daughters, Agnes, Susanna, Catharine, and
Isabell, all married, and had issue.
This Angus was a man of great probity and honour ;
of a most amiable disposition, and, dying anno 1746,
was succeeded by his eldest son,
XIV. Kobert Campbell of Asknish, an advocate
before the Court of Session. He was brought up
to the Bar, under the particular tuition of Archibald,
Earl of Islay, afterwards Duke of Argyll, and possessed
much of the confidence and friendship of that great
man as long as he lived. In 1769 he married Catharine
Eleanora, third daughter, and one of the co-heiresses
of Mail- Yates, Esq., of Mail and Mag-hide ; by Eliza-
beth, his wife, daughter of Humphrey Trafford, Esq.,
of Trafford, both of the county of Lancashire, and by
her he had a daughter, Elizabeth Harriot.