The Campbells of Argyll (1913) - Searchable PDF & Surname Index

Trace Eight Centuries of Clan Campbell Chieftains, Cadet Houses, Highland Regiments & Naval Commanders from Loch Awe to the Relief of Lucknow

Originally published in 1913 by Thomas Nelson and Sons in their celebrated Famous Families in British History series, Hilda T. Skae's The Campbells of Argyll is a richly illustrated historical and biographical chronicle of one of Scotland's greatest Highland clans. Spanning from the twelfth-century defenders of Dunstaffnage Castle and the knights of Lochawe who fought beside Sir William Wallace and King Robert the Bruce to the battlefields of Flodden, Sheriffmuir, Darien, Quebec, Savannah, Penobscot, Mangalore, Assaye, Corunna, Vittoria, Waterloo, Rangoon, Balaclava, and Lucknow, this volume documents the lives and family branches of the men who bore the name and arms of Clan Campbell (Ne Obliviscaris).

Prepared exclusively for genealogists, clan historians, and military researchers, this Enhanced Fairbairn's Crests Digital Edition preserves all 148 original 1913 content pages—including all 8 full-page historical color plates and the heraldic achievement of the House of Argyll—with their authentic archival paper tone and native searchable OCR layer completely intact, while stripping out 12 non-content scan artifact pages (blank flyleaves, unprinted plate backs, and Internet Archive digitizer sheets) and adding 24 newly typeset pages of genealogical apparatus and back-of-book indexes.

What's Inside This Enhanced Fairbairn's Crests Digital Edition:

• 172 Total Pages in One Complete Volume: Comprises 4 pages of newly written Fairbairn's Crests Front Matter (Pages i–iv), 148 cleaned original 1913 book and color plate pages (Printed Pages 9–144 plus frontmatter and 8 color plates), and a 20-page Back-of-Book Research Index (Merged PDF Pages 153–172).
• Artifact-Free Archival Scan with 100% Intact Native OCR: All 12 blank pages, unprinted plate versos, and Internet Archive digitizer notices have been deterministically removed. The retained 1913 pages are preserved without destructive re-rasterizing or whitening so that instant Ctrl+F / Cmd+F keyword search works across every page.
• 14 Distinct Campbell Cadet Branches & Chieftains Documented: Covers the main Ducal House of Argyll and Lorne (The MacCallum More) alongside the cadet families of Campbell of Glenorchy (Breadalbane), Campbell of Loudoun and Lawers, Campbell of Fonab, Campbell of Barbreck, Campbell of Stonefield, Campbell of Inverneil, Campbell of Monzie, Campbell of Melfort, Campbell of the Citadel, Campbell of Glenlyon, Campbell of Kingsburgh (Skye), and Campbell of Islay / Macliver of Glasgow (Baron Clyde).
• Newly Compiled 451-Entry Alphabetical Research Index: Features a dual-numbered Back-of-Book Index citing both Original Printed Page Numbers and exact Merged PDF Page Numbers across 190 Surnames, Clans & Historical Personages (Part A) and 261 Parishes, Castles, Battles, Naval Vessels & Regiments (Part B).
• Exact Page Offset Guide & OCR Spelling Key: Includes a complete 8-band page conversion table accounting for the 7 unnumbered internal color plates and a 12-item historical/OCR spelling key (such as Lorne/Lome, Cantyre/Kintyre, Callum/Galium, and MacIans/Maclans).

Historical & Regional Overview

For researchers tracing roots in Argyllshire, Perthshire, Ayrshire, and the Hebrides, the early chapters provide vivid accounts of medieval clan warfare and royal alliances: Colin Maol Maith ("Bald Good Colin") at Dunstaffnage Castle under Alexander I; Sir Colin (Callum) More, Knight of Lochawe, slain by Ian Barach (Lame John) MacDougall at the Red Ford (Ath Dearg / Ballach-na-scringe) and buried at Kilchrennan on Lochaweside; his son Sir Niall Campbell ("Brother of the Bruce"), who held the Pass of Awe with Sir William Wallace against MacFadyen, attended Robert the Bruce's coronation at Scone, shared the King's exile from Methven and Tyndrum to Cantyre alongside Malcolm Earl of Lennox, Sir James Douglas, Sir Gilbert Hay, and Sir Alexander Seton, wed Lady Marjory Bruce, and fought at Bannockburn; Sir Colin Oig, who recaptured Duntroon Castle and Bute Castle; the Crusader Sir Colin Campbell of Glenorchy and his wife Lady Margaret at Kilchurn Castle (who drove off Baron MacCorquodale); and Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll, Lieutenant of the Isles and Governor of Tarbert Castle, who captured Donald Dhu and fell beside King James IV at Flodden (1513).

The later chapters follow Campbell soldiers, sailors, and administrators across the globe: General Sir James Campbell of Lawers (Scots Greys) at Malplaquet, Dettingen, and Fontenoy; Field-Marshal John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll and Duke of Greenwich, at Ramillies, Oudenarde, Ostend, Menin, Lille, Ghent, Tournay, and the 1715 Jacobite campaign at Edinburgh, Leith, Stirling, Dunblane, Sheriffmuir, Burntisland, Auchterarder, Perth, Montrose, and Aberdeen; Lt.-Col. Alexander Campbell of Fonab at Dixmunde and the Scottish colony at Toubocanti, Darien; Donald Campbell of Barbreck on his overland journey through Alexandria, Aleppo, Bagdad, Bussora, Bushire, Goa, and captivity under Hyder Ali and Hyat Sahib at Bednore (Hydernagur); Lt.-Col. John Campbell of Stonefield (42nd Black Watch) at Paniané, Annanpore, and the 9-month Siege of Mangalore against Tippoo Sahib; Maj.-Gen. Sir Archibald Campbell of Inverneil (71st Fraser Highlanders) at Quebec, Boston Harbor, Savannah, Augusta, Jamaica, and Madras; Gen. Alexander Campbell of Monzie at Bemus Hill, Saratoga, Nova Scotia, the heroic defence of Penobscot (with Gen. Francis Maclean), Lincelles, and Louth; Rear-Admiral Donald Campbell and Vice-Admiral Sir Patrick Campbell of Melfort in the West Indies, Camperdown, Dunkirk Roads (capture of La Désirée), Quiberon Bay, and the Mediterranean; Maj.-Gen. Sir Colin Campbell of Melfort at Ahmednuggur, Assaye, Vimiera, Badajos, Waterloo, Nova Scotia, and Ceylon; Gen. Sir James Campbell of Inverneil at Messina, Mili, and the Ionian Islands; Gen. Colin Campbell (son of John Campbell of the Citadel; married to the daughter of New York Loyalist Col. Grey Johnstone) at Vinegar Hill, Ballinamuck, Gibraltar, Ceuta, and Tarifa, and his son Maj.-Gen. Sir Guy Campbell, Bart. at Corunna, Vittoria, Sorauren, and Echallar; Maj.-Gen. Sir Neil Campbell in the West Indies, Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca, Fère-Champenoise, Elba (with Napoleon), Waterloo, Cambrai, and Sierra Leone; Gen. Sir Archibald Campbell of Glenlyon, Bart. in the Peninsula, the First Burmese War (Rangoon, Kemmandine, Shwedagon Pagoda, Donabew, Prome, Melloon, and Ava), and as Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick; Maj.-Gen. Sir John Campbell of Kingsburgh, Skye in Goomsoor, Orissa, Boad, Chima Kimedy, and Lumbargam; and Field-Marshal Sir Colin Campbell, Baron Clyde at Vimiera, Corunna, Walcheren, Barossa, Tarifa, San Sebastian, Bidassoa, Bladensburg, New Orleans, Demerara, Chusan (China), Chillianwalla, Goojerat, the Kohat Pass, the Alma, the "Thin Red Line" at Balaclava, Cawnpore, and the Relief and Capture of Lucknow.

Surnames, Clans & Families Indexed in This Volume:

Abercromby, Alexander, Amherst, Anne, Anson, Appin (Stewart of), Argyll (Argyle / Campbell of), Baliol (Balliol), Bandoola, Barach (MacDougall), Barnard, Barnes, Beresford, Bissaye (Dora & Sam), Bonaparte (Napoleon & Joseph), Breadalbane (Campbell of), Bruce (King Robert, Lady Marjory, Nigel), Burgoyne, Byng, Cadogan, Camden, Cameron, Campbell (of Argyll, Barbreck, Breadalbane, Citadel, Fonab, Glenlyon, Glenorchy, Inverneil, Islay, Kingsburgh, Lawers, Lochawe, Lorne, Loudoun, Melfort, Monzie, Stonefield), Cathcart, Cavaignac, Chads, Charles, Chattan (Clan), Clare (de la), Clausel, Clinton, Clyde (Baron), Codrington, Cornwallis, Cossigny, Cotton, Cromwell, Cumming (Comyn), Dalhousie, David, Dhu (Donald), Douglas, Drummond, Edward, Elgin, Elizabeth, Eugene (Prince of Savoy), Fanshawe, Fleming, Fraser (Eraser), Fullerton, George, Gilbert, Glengarry (MacDonell of), Gordon, Gough, Graham (Lord Lynedoch), Grant (Hope), Grasse (Count de), Graves, Greenwich (Duke of), Grey, Hall, Hannibal, Havelock, Hay, Heiden, Hill, Hope (Adrian), Humberstone (Mackenzie), Humbert, Huntly (Gordon, Earl of), Hyat Sahib, Hyder Ali, Inglis, Inman, James, Jervis, Johnstone (Col. Grey), Kavanagh, Kwang (Taon), Lacy, Lally, Lee Wongee, Lennox (Earl of), Lockhart (of Carnwath), Lorne (Marquis & Lord of), Loudoun (Earl of), Lynedoch (Lord), MacCallum More, MacCorquodale, MacDermeit (M'Dermeit), MacDougall (Ian Barach, Ian of Lorne, Duncan), MacFadyen, MacIan (Maclan of Glencoe), Mackenzie, MacLean (Sir John MacLean, Gen. Francis Maclean), MacLeod (Chief of Clan MacLeod, Gen. Norman Macleod), Macliver (John Macliver, Colin Macliver / Lord Clyde), Mar (Erskine, Earl of), Maria Theresa, Marlborough (Churchill, Duke of), Matthews, Maximilian Joseph, Menteith (Sir John), Miranda, Moore (Sir John), Mundy, Murat, Napier (Sir Charles & Sir William), Nee Woon Breen, Outram, Palmerston, Park (Mungo), Parker, Peel, Prevost, Price (Dr.), Raglan, Ranald (Clanranald), Rodney, Sale, Sandford, Saxe (Marshal), Schylemberg (Schulenburg), Scindia, Seton (Sir Alexander), Skae (Hilda T.), Soomba Wongee, Soult, St. Vincent (Jervis, Earl of), Stewart (Robert), Stuart (Royal House of & Gen. Sir John), Sykia Wongee, Taylor (Sir Henry), Tippoo Sahib (Tippoo Sultan), Trollope, Victoria (Queen), Walker, Wallace (Sir William), Wellesley (Duke of Wellington & Marquis of Wellesley), Western, William III, Windham, Wittgenstein, Wolfe (Gen. James), York (Duke of).

Parishes, Castles, Regions, Battles, Ships & Regiments Indexed:

Scottish, English & Irish Places: Aberdeen, Appin, Ardchattan Priory, Argyllshire (Argyle), Ath Dearg (Red Ford), Auchterarder, Pass of Awe & River Awe, Ayrshire, Badenoch, Ballach-na-scringe, Ballinamuck, Bannockburn, Barbreck, Breadalbane, Burntisland Castle, Castle of Bute, Cairn Challum, Cantyre (Kintyre), Carnwath, Citadel, Clydesdale & River Clyde, Dublin, Dumbarton, Dunblane, Dunstaffnage Castle, Duntroon Castle, River Earn, Edinburgh & Edinburgh Castle (West Port), Fifeshire, Firth of Forth, Flodden, Fonab, Glasgow, Glencoe, Glengarry, Gleninchur, Glenlyon, Glenorchy, Greenwich, Haddington, Highlands & Lowlands, Inverneil, Ireland, Isle of Islay, Western Isles (Hebrides), Kilchrennan on Lochaweside, Kilchurn Castle, Kildrummie Castle, Kingsburgh (Isle of Skye), Lawers, Leeds, Leith Citadel, Lennox, Lochawe & Lochaweside, Lochleven & Lomond Hills, London & Westminster Abbey, Lorne, Loudoun, County Louth, MacFadyen's Cave, Melfort, Methven, Montrose, Monzie, Ochil Hills & Allan Water, Perth & Perthshire, Scone, Seaton, Sheriffmuir, Shorncliffe, Isle of Skye, Stirling & Stirling Bridge, Stonefield, Tarbert Castle, River Tay, Tyndrum, Vinegar Hill, Wales.
North American, West Indian & Global Theaters: Augusta (Georgia), Barbados, Barcelona & Caracas Coast, Bemus Hill & Saratoga, Bladensburg & New Orleans, Boston, Caicos & Turks Islands, Canada & Quebec, Isthmus of Darien & Toubocanti, Demerara, Georgia & Savannah, Guadeloupe, Martinique & Saintes Islands, Hudson River, Jamaica & Kingston, Labrador & Newfoundland, Leogane (Santo Domingo), Margarita Island, Massachusetts & Penobscot, Montserrat, St. Eustache, St. Kitts & Tobago, New Brunswick, New York & Sandy Hook, Nova Scotia, Trinidad, Albuera, Alicante, Alma, Arrago des Molinos, Badajos, Balaclava, Barossa, Belle Ile, Bidassoa, Bordeaux, Busaco, Cadiz, Calabria, Cambrai, Camperdown, Ceuta, Ciudad Rodrigo, Colberg, Corunna & Vigo, Crimea, Denmark & Kioge, Dettingen, Dixmunde, D'Ottignies, Dunkirk, Echallar, Elba, Fère-Champenoise, Fontenoy, Ghent, Gibraltar, Ionian Islands, Kaiserswerth, Lille, Lincelles, Madrid, Malaga & Ronda, Malplaquet, Menin, Minorca, Nivelle & Nive, Ostend, Oudenarde, Pyrenees, Quatre Bras & Waterloo, Quiberon Bay & Rochelle, Ramillies, Rhodes, Roliça & Vimiera, San Sebastian, Sicily & Messina, Sorauren, Tarifa, Tournay, Vittoria, Walcheren, Agra & Delhi, Ahmednuggur, Aleppo & Alexandria, Annanpore, Argaum & Assaye, Ava & Burmah, Bagdad & Bussora, Bednore & Hydernagur, Bengal & Calcutta, Boad, Chima Kimedy, Goomsoor & Orissa, Bombay, Bushire & Muscat, Cape of Good Hope, Cawnpore, Oudh & Rohilkund, Ceylon, Chillianwalla & Goojerat, China, Chin-Kang-Foo & Chusan, Deccan & Nagpore, Donabew, Irrawaddy, Kemmandine, Melloon & Prome, Goa, Kohat Pass & Peshawur, Lahore & Ramnuggur, Lucknow (Alumbagh, Dilkusha, Kaisar Bagh, Martinière, Residency, Secunder Bagh, Shah Najif), Madras, Mangalore & Tillycherry, Mysore & Seringapatam, Paniané, Rangoon & Great Shoe Dagon Pagoda, Sierra Leone.
Ships & Regiments Indexed: H.M.S. Andromache, Annabel, H.M.S. Ariadne, H.M.S. Blonde, H.M.S. Carysfort, H.M.S. Curieux, H.M.S. Dart, La Désirée, H.M.S. Doris, Earl of Chesterfield, El Pensée, H.M.S. Felix, H.M.S. Galatea, George, La Victoire, Leander, H.M.S. Lily, H.M.S. Pert, H.M.S. Rosalind, H.M.S. Russell, Sally, H.M.S. Scorpion, H.M.S. Tonnant, H.M.S. Unité; 1st Light Infantry, 3rd Buffs, 3rd Guards, 6th Foot, 38th Foot, 41st Madras Native Infantry, 42nd Royal Highlanders (Black Watch / 73rd Regiment), 43rd Foot, 49th Foot, 60th Rifles, 62nd Foot, 70th Foot, 71st Highland Light Infantry (Fraser's Highlanders), 74th Argyll Highlanders, 75th Foot, 78th Seaforth Highlanders, 79th Cameron Highlanders, 93rd Sutherland Highlanders (Highland Brigade), 98th Foot, Breadalbane Fencibles, Scots Greys, and Scottish Horse Guards.