James Campbell (of Burnbank and Boquhan)

For other people named James Campbell, see James Campbell (disambiguation).

The Honourable James Campbell (after c. 1660 – c. January 1713) of Burnbank and Boquhan[1] was a Scottish nobleman of Clan Campbell. He was an officer of the Royal Scots Army and then the British Army, and a politician who sat in the Parliament of Scotland from 1699 to 1702 and as a Whig in the British House of Commons from 1708 to 1710.

In 1690 in London, 30-year-old Campbell abducted and married the 13-year-old granddaughter of an unamused Thomas, Lord Wharton. A notorious scandal ensued.[2] Campbell stole away to Scotland, evading punishment.[3]

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  3. ^ "A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British Empire", by Sir Bernard Burke; Harrison; London; 1869, p. 627.