Campbell, Hugh Hume

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Dates 1700s
Location London
Vocation Politician
Place of Birth Canongate, Edinburgh
Marriage Anne Western (d.1747); Elizabeth Crompton
Issue 5 children
Place of birth Source J.B. Paul, The Scots Peerage: A History of the Noble Families of Scotland, 9 vols (Edinburgh, 1904-1914), vi, 20-3; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Third earl of Marchmont. Entered Parliament as representative of Berwick-upon-Tweed (1734). Had to leave House of Commons when he succeeded earldom. One of sixteen Representative Peers (1750). Made Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland (1764). Died at house in Hemel Hempstead 1794.