BREADALBANE 293 Lord Glenorchy() till he sue. to the Earldom. He was li. 19 Nov. 1662. He was sum. to surrender after the Risingof 1 7 1 5, but escaped punishment. C") His right to the Peerage was impugned in 172 1, "his elder bn, Lord Or- mony [/.^. Ormelie], being then alive."('=) Lord Lieut, of Perthshire 1725 till his death. After his brother's death he was found heir to his father, 26 Dec. 1733. Rep. Peer [S.] (Whig) 1736-47. Ch. Justice in Eyre South of Trent Dec. 1746 till his death. He m., istly, Frances, da. of Henry (Cavendish), 2nd and last Duk.e of Newcastle, by Frances, da. of the Hon. William Pierrepont. She, who was b. 25 June 1660, ^. j./). and v.p., 4 Feb. 1690, in her 30th year. He tn., 2ndly, 23 May 1695, Henri- etta, sister of Edward, ist Earl of Jersey, 5th da. of Sir Edward Villiers, Knight Marshal, by his ist wife, Frances, da. of Theophilus (Howard), Earl of Suffolk. She d. i Feb. 1719/20. He d. 23 Feb. 1752, at the Abbey of Holyroodhouse, in his 90th year. Will pr. Feb. 1753. III. 1752. 3. John (Campbell), Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, <yc.,[S.],only s. and h. by 2nd Wife, bap. 10 Mar. 1695/6, at the Chapel Royal; matric. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.) 13 Oct 171 1, then aged 1 5. Master of the Horse to the Princess of Wales, 1 7 1 8 ; Minister to Copenhagen, 1 720-30; K.B. (under the style of Lord Glenorchy) at the revival of that order, 17 May 1725; M.P. (Whig) for Saltash, 1727-41 ; for Orford, 1741-46; Minister to St. Petersburg, Dec. 1731; a Lord of the Ad- miralty, 1741-42; Master of the Jewel Office, 1745-56; Rep. Peer [S.] 1752-68 and 1774-80; Ch. Justice in Eyre South of Trent, 1756-65; Keeper of the Privy Seal [S.] Oct. 1765 to Aug. 1766; P.C. 12 May 1766; Vice Admiral of Scotland 1776-82. In politics he was a warm supporter of Walpole. On 5 May 1775 he executed an entail of his vast estates on the inheritor of the title, viz. the h. ma/e (in the first instance) of the ist Earl. He m., I stly, 20 Feb. 1 7 1 7/8, (lie. Fac. Off.) at St. James's, Westm., Amabel, 1st da. and coh. of Henry (Grey), Duke of Kent, by his ist wife, Jemima, da. of Thomas (Crewe), Baron Crewe of Steyne. She d. 2 Mar. 1726/7, at Copenhagen. ('^) He ;«., 2ndly, 23 Jan. 1730, Arabella, 3rd da. and coh. of John Pershall (s. and h. ap. of Sir Thomas Pershall, Bart.), by Char- lotte, da. of Thomas (Colepeper), Lord Colepeper. She d. i Sep. 1762, (*) The Master will have greater influence than his father or grandfather with his men. His grandfather the Earl is but a liferenter of £,S'^° ^ 7^^ o"^ of the es- tate, and is very much superannuated, and Lord Glenurchy is but a liferenter also, and a very weak man, and the Master is a very promising youth and in the fee of the es- tate. Sep. 1 7 16. {Hist. MSS. Com., Stuart Papers, vol. iv, p. 83). V.G. C') Any help this Whig gave or professed to give to the Jacobites is less likely to have been induced by any feeling of loyalty to his de jure king than by a determina- tion, more Scottico, to take a different side from his father, so that " whatsoever king may reign " the family property would be preserved. V.G. {') Robertson, p. 88. C^) Jemima, their only child who survived infancy, b. 9 Oct. 1723, sue. her mater- nal grandfather (the Duke of Kent) as Marchioness Grey and Baroness Lucas of Crudwell. See those tides.
