![]() There were eleven, possibly twelve children of the marriage between Colin and Isabella, five or six sons and six daughters, three of whom are in the portrait by Colvin Smith. , a major Scottish company in the sugar trade. īarbara married Alexander Campbell of Hallyards in 1800, a cousin of John Campbell senior and one of the original partners of John Campbell, senior & Co. When slavery was finally abolished his trust, he died in 1815, represented by his widow, his brother in law Colin and others as trustees were awarded compensation of £12,545 14s 9d in 1836 for the freeing of 253 slaves on three plantations he or his company owned in Trinidad. He was against the anti-slavery movement and was a founder member of the Glasgow West India Association which was formed to resist that movement. ![]() In 1797 Anne married Robert Dennistoun, son of Richard Dennistoun. Ĭolin’s sisters Anne Penelope and Barbara both married individuals who were shareholders or partners in companies involved in the Caribbean. His father-in-law Richard Dennistoun is also named as partner in the company and was also a partner in George and Robert Dennistoun and Co and Dennistoun, Buchanan and Co., both companies heavily involved in the trade. and is described as a ‘name partner’ in the research report ‘Legacies of British Slave-ownership’ by University College London. What his business activities were is not entirely clear however he was involved in the Caribbean sugar trade through Campbell, Rivers & Co. He married Isabella Hamilton Dundas Dennistoun in 1806 and was described as a merchant in Glasgow. The succession line was a mixture of father to son and brother to brother, particularly in the nineteenth century when three sons of the sixth Laird Colin Campbell inherited the title, their combined ‘tenure’ totalling fifty three years from 1848 to 1901.Ĭolin Campbell was born on the 8 th November 1772 to Archibald and Sarah Campbell. There were to be 11 lairds in total from the early 1600s to 1971 when the last one died. He was born in 1596 and died in 1695, being succeeded by his son John Campbell. The first Laird was Duncan Campbell of the House of Lochnell. This was not to be and the treaty proved to be undoing of Clan Donald paving the way for a long period of Clan Campbell control of Jura from the seventeeth century on. ![]() The genus of Campbell control of Jura began in the fifteenth century when John McDonald entered into a treaty with Edward IV of England from which he anticipated he would become King of a large part of Scotland. The first by the Scottish portrait painter Colvin Smith was titled ‘Daughters of Colin Campbell of Jura’, the other by Scottish landscape artist Gourlay Steel was called ‘Deer Stalking on Jura’ and was painted circa 1870. In June 1945 Captain Campbell of Jura donated two paintings to Kelvingrove. ![]()
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