Donald Campbell, Abbot of Coupar Angus

THE RIGHT REVEREND DONALD CAMPBELL

Abbot of Coupar Angus; Lord Privy Seal; Senator of the College of Justice

The Right Reverend Donald Campbell is the fourth son of Archibald Campbell, Earl of Argyll, and his wife Elizabeth Stewart. The Scots Peerage I: 336

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

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12 December 1543: REGINA &c., dedit literas legitimationis NICHOLAO CAMPBELL bastardo, filio naturali Donaldi C. xxix. 97. RMS, 1513-46, charter number 2976

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5 April 1559: Feu charter by Donald, abbot of Coupar, and convent thereof to Nicholas Campbell, Master of Arts, dean of Lismore, whom failing to David Campbell, his natural brother, of the lands of Dalwany and Craignaite with the forest, privileges and pastures of Glenbrauchty, Glaswory and Glasworybog. Coupar. [Subscribed by abbot and chapter; common seal of chapter appended]. [514.52]. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Earls of Airlie, reference GD16/9/1

Genealogy

1. The Scots Peerage I: 336
2. Stirnet: Campbell 24
3. Clan MacFarlane and associated clans genealogyT Scots Peerage I: 336]
4. Wikipedia

Biographical Summary

2 July 1541. DONALD CAMPBELL, ABBOT OF COUPAR. FOURTH son of Archibald , second Earl of Argyle. He was in 1526 recommended by King James V . to the Pope for the Abbacy of Coupar, the letters recommendatory being ratified in parliament on the 14th June 1526. In 1543 he was appointed one of the Privy Council to the Regent Arran, and on the 12th June 1546 was again named as one of those who should remain with the governor, and be of his secret council. In 1558 he was elected to the see of Brechin , then vacant by the death of Bishop Hepburn , but the election was not agree able to the court of Rome, on account of the abbot's supposed predilection for the doctrines of the Reformed Church , and his election was not confirmed . In August 1560 he sat as Abbot of Coupar in the parliament which destroyed the papal jurisdiction in Scotland. He held for some years the office of Lord Privy Seal, and died in the year 1562. An Historical Account of the Senators of the College of Justice: From Its Institution in MDXXXII, By George Brunton and David Haig (Thomas Clark, Edinburgh, Saunders and Benning, London, 1832), page 69