Campbell baronets of Succoth (1808)

Escutcheon of the Campbell baronets of Succoth[1]

The Campbell baronetcy, of Succoth in the County of Dumbarton, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 17 September 1808 for Ilay Campbell, Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General between 1789 and 1808 under the judicial title Lord Succoth.[2] The second Baronet was a Senator of the College of Justice, also under the judicial title Lord Succoth. The third Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Argyllshire.[3]

The title became extinct on the death of the seventh Baronet in 2017.[4]

  1. ^ Burke, Bernard (1864). The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales: Comprising a Registry of Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time. Harrison & sons. p. 164.
  2. ^ Foster, Joseph (1883). The Baronetage and Knightage of the British Empire. Westminster: Nichols and Sons. pp. 101–102.
  3. ^ John Wodehouse (Earl of Kimberley) (1997). The Journal of John Wodehouse First Earl of Kimberley, 1862-1902. Cambridge University Press. p. 193 note 523. ISBN 978-0-521-62328-5.
  4. ^ "Campbell of Succoth, Sir Ilay (Mark)". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)