Sir Dugald Campbell, 1st Baronet
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Sir Dugald Campbell was a Scot
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. the son of Sir Duncan Campbell and his wife Mary

Career

He was heir to his estate before 1599. He raided Bute
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 in 1602. He was knighted by James, VI, in 1617. He was created Baronet
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 of Nova Scotia
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 in 1628. MacPhail wrote (p. 65): “…(Dugald) was by King’s Charter 1st created Knight Baronet of Nova Scotia... (He received a charter wherein there are many privileges) “…dated at Whitehall
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, London
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 12 January 1628. He seems to have been knighted at an earlier date.” He married first, in 1590, and twice thereafter. He married first, Mary Erskine of Gogan
Gogan
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, Scotland, daughter Of Lord Erskine
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, of Nova Scotia, and sister to Thomas Viscount of Fentoun
Earl of Kellie
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. He married second, Dame Isabel Boyd, daughter of Lord Boyd
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. She was born about 1574.
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