Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll
Governed Scotland during Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1607-1661) · Politicians · Died at 54
Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll was a Scottish nobleman, politician, and peer.
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Portrait traditionally identified as the 9th Earl, but subsequently confirmed as being of the 8th Earl in his youth (Scottish Notes and Queries, v11, pp.5-6). His biographer John Willcock believed that it dated from his 1626 marriage.![Photograph of now lost portrait of c.1644, attributed to George Jamesone, of Archibald Campbell, Marquess of Argyll, formerly at Castle Campbell. The painting, rediscovered in an estate cottage in c.1870, was destroyed in an 1877 fire at Inveraray Castle.[8]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Marquess_of_Argyll_1644.jpg/330px-Marquess_of_Argyll_1644.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
Photograph of now lost portrait of c.1644, attributed to George Jamesone, of Archibald Campbell, Marquess of Argyll, formerly at Castle Campbell. The painting, rediscovered in an estate cottage in c.1870, was destroyed in an 1877 fire at Inveraray Castle.[8]
Memorial to Argyll in St. Giles Kirk, EdinburghAbout this person
The de facto head of Scotland's government during most of the conflict of the 1640s and 1650s known as the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, he was the main leader of the Covenanter movement that fought for the Establishment of Presbyterianism in opposition to the preference of King Charles I and the Caroline Divines for instead establishing both High Church Anglicanism and Bishops. He is often remembered as the principal antagonist to the Royalist general James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose.
