Sir Robert Campbell, 3rd Baronet of Glenorchy (c.1575 – 17 November 1657) was a Scottish nobleman and landowner, the 9th Laird of Glenorchy and Glenfalloch.
He had eight sons and nine daughters, and was succeeded in the Campbell baronetage of Glenorchy by his eldest son John, who was himself the father of Sir John Campbell, 5th Baronet (later 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland).[2] Sir Robert died in 1657 at the age of eighty-two. The family came to be one of the most feared and powerful Highland clans.[3]
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^William Boyd, Calendar of State Papers Scotland: 1574-1581, vol. 5 (Edinburgh, 1907), p. 26.
^ abGillies, William A. (1938). In Famed Breadalbane. pp. 144–145.
^"Which was the most feared Highland clan?". The Scotsman. 2018.
October 28, 2023
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