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Archibald Campbell, 5th Earl of Argyll ( 1532 / 1537 – 12 September 1573 ) was one of the leading figures in the politics of Scotland during the reign of Mary, Queen of Scots, and the early part of that of James VI.
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* 1778 – American Revolutionary War: 3, 000 British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture Savannah, Georgia.
On the third day Allen was exchanged for Colonel Archibald Campbell, who was conducted to the exchange by Colonel Elias Boudinot, the American commissary general of prisoners appointed by General George Washington.
Scottish politics in the late 18th century was dominated by the Whigs, with the benign management of Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll ( 1682 – 1761 ), who was in effect the " viceroy of Scotland " from the 1720s until his death in 1761.
A watercolor from the mid-1830s portrays New Brunswick Lieutenant Governor Sir Archibald Campbell and his family in the company of British soldiers on skates engaged in stick-on-ice sport.
First tutored at home by his mother Elizabeth, between the ages of 11 and 16, the young Monroe studied at Campbelltown Academy, a school run by the Reverend Archibald Campbell of Washington Parish.
* September 9 – King James IV of Scotland, Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll, Alexander Stewart ( Archbishop of St Andrews ), ( at the Battle of Flodden Field ) ( b. 1473 )
The name Magnolia campbellii commemorates two people: Pierre Magnol, a French botanist, and Archibald Campbell, a doctor in British India.
At first, Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll, was set to fill the power vacuum and enforce royal authority, but he met with limited success in a struggle with his brother-in-law, Torquil MacLeod of Lewis.
The village was the birthplace in 1682 of Archibald Campbell, later 3rd Duke of Argyll and Earl of Islay.
It was later called Campbelltown, a designation that prevailed for many years until, at the suggestion of William Archibald, it received the official designation St. Thomas, purportedly still honoring Thomas Campbell, who had laid out the village.
Archibald and 5th
* 1847 – Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, English statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1929 )
* Prime Minister Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland )
His eldest son and heir apparent was Francis, Viscount Drumlanrig, who was rumoured to have been engaged in a relationship with the Liberal Prime Minister, Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery.
Today's Greyfriars Church overlooks the location of a statue of Burns, which was designed by Amelia Paton Hill, sculpted in Carrara, Italy in 1882, and was unveiled by future Prime Minister, Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery on 6 April 1882.
* Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas ( 1390 – 1439 ), Scottish nobleman, de jure Duke of Touraine
From 1437 to 1439 the King's first cousin Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas, headed the government as lieutenant-general of the realm.
Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, 1st Earl of Midlothian, KG, PC ( 7 May 1847 – 21 May 1929 ) was a British Liberal statesman and Prime Minister.
* Archibald Campbell, 5th Earl of Argyll ( c. 1537 – 1573 ) ( elder son of the 4th Earl, died without issue )
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