Sir Donald Campbell of Ardnamurchan, 1st Baronet

Biographical Summary

"Sir Donald Campbell of Ardnamurchan, co Argyll, and also, by purchase, or Airds in that county, illegit. son or Sir John Campbell of Calder, 'being a man of considerable power and consequence, and the terror of the district in which he lived'; was created a Baronet [S] 15 January, sealed 23 December 1628, but not recorded in the Great Seal Register [S], with rem. to heirs male whatsoever, and with a grant of, presumably, 16,000 acres in Nova Scotia, of which he had seizin in December 1628. He obtained a new enfeoffment of Airds and other his estates, 28 August 1643, with rem. to George Campbell, son of Sir John Campbell of Calder, the legit. son of his [the Baronet's] father. He married firstly, Jane, daughter of Colin (Campbell), 6th Earl of Argyll [S], by, presumably, his 2nd wife, Agnes, daughter of William (Keith), Earl Marischal [S]. He married secondly, Anne Campbell, illegit. daughter of the said Earl. He died s.p.m.s, 1651, when the Baronetcy became extinct, and the estate of Ardnamurchan passed to the Earls of Argyll [S], but that of Airds devolved, under the entail of 1643, to the abovenamed George Campbell."

SOURCE: Complete baronetage; Cokayne, George E. (George Edward); 1900; Vol. II; page 341-342