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James Campbell of LawersJames Campbell of Lawers (died 1645) was a Scottish landowner. His home, Lawers, was on the banks of Loch Tay in Perthshire. He was a son of John Campbell of Lawers and Aberuchill and Beatrix Campbell, a daughter of Colin Campbell of Glenorchy. John Campbell was knighted at the coronation of Anne of Denmark in Edinburgh in 1590. John Campbell had a lodging in Perth. He, or perhaps his son, was found to have committed adultery with more than woman by the Kirk Session of Perth in 1596.[1] James Campbell married Jean Colville, a daughter of James Colville, Laird of Wemyss in 1595. The expense of the marriages of his daughters was supposed to have caused Colville some distress and he hoped for a financial reward from Elizabeth I.[2] The marriage was promoted to the English ambassador Robert Bowes by John Colville who hoped Campbell and the Laird of Wemyss would be encouraged in their support for English policy.[3] John Colville called Campbell "Junior", his father was still alive and he was known as the "young laird of Lawers". Campbell affectionately addressed John Colville as "father".[4] Campbell persuaded some Highland and Argyll men not to fight in Ireland against the English, speaking to two or three companies of soldiers on the point of embarking at Tarbert.[5] He made offers to Sir Robert Cecil to support English soldiers in Ireland. The Dean of Limerick thought his youth and inexperience made him ill-equipped be a chief commander as yet, and he observed that Lawers was not a close adherent of the Earl of Argyll because his father's lands were far from the Earl's.[6] Their eldest son was John Campbell, 1st Earl of Loudoun (1598-1662). A younger son Mungo Campbell of Lawers was killed at the battle of Auldearn in 1645. A daughter married David Dunbar of Enterkine in Ayrshire. References
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