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Baron Blythswood

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125:, replacing the older small mansion of Ranfield, or Renfield. The new house name reflected the vast Lands of Blythswood acquired from Glasgow Town Council in the 18th century on the north side of the Clyde, starting west of Buchanan Street, Glasgow, and reaching the River Kelvin. The Lands of Blythswood started to be feued by an ancestor in the late 1790s/early 1800s as the city's New Town of Blythswood including 22: 95:
Lord Blythswood was childless and on his death in 1908 the baronetcy became extinct. He was succeeded in the barony according to the special remainder by his younger brother Reverend Sholto Douglas. On becoming the next Lord Blythswood he too assumed by Royal licence the surname of Campbell in lieu
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in the British Army. As follows, on succeeding in the barony on the death of his father in 1918 he assumed by Royal licence the surname of Campbell only. He had no sons and was succeeded by his younger brother, the fifth Baron. He died unmarried and was succeeded by his younger brother, the sixth
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and 12th feudal baron of Blythswood, a patrilineal descendant of James Douglas (who had assumed by Royal licence the surname of Douglas in lieu of Campbell), son of John Campbell and Mary, daughter and heiress of John Douglas of Mains. However John himself was also landed as the son of Colin
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Baron. He assumed by Royal licence the surname of Douglas-Campbell in 1929 but on succeeding in the barony in 1937 he assumed the surname of Campbell only by Royal licence. The title became extinct on the early death of his son, the seventh Baron, in 1940 due to a car accident.
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The Campbell and Douglas families adopted the title "of Blythswood" after buying the vast historic Lands of Blythswood from earlier owners including the distinguished Elphinstone family, and Glasgow Town Council. The city central area of Blythswood,
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The British 1st Baron Blythswood's father was born Archibald Douglas but assumed his new patronymic on 1838 on inheriting the Blythswood estate on the death of his cousin, Archibald Campbell.
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share the same origins. (This includes a former 1960s British Rail office block close to the square, remodelled as Blythswood House student accommodation for
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of his patronymic. He was also childless and was succeeded by his younger brother Barrington Douglas-Campbell, the third Baron. He was a
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Blythswood Shipbuilding Company Ltd, Scotstoun, Glasgow, operated from 1919 to 1964, when the yard was acquired by Yarrow & Co Ltd.
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designed by the 1st Lord Blythswood's young brother Walter Douglas Campbell continues in its original site at Loch Awe.
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Campbell, 1st feudal Scots Baron of Blythswood and that estate passed to another branch of the family.
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Born Archibald Douglas, the first holder was the son of Archibald Douglas, 17th feudal Scots baron of
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Leopold Colin Henry Douglas Campbell/Campbell, 6th Baron Blythswood (1881–1940) brother of the above
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Barrington Sholto Douglas Campbell/Campbell, 5th Baron Blythswood (1877–1937) brother of the above
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was one of a number of family seats for three hundred years from the 1690s to the 1990s.
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which is where in the year of his death he has a large tablet monument in the church
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Another family estate, Rosehall, Lanarkshire (later renamed Douglas Support by
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Philip Archibald Douglas Campbell/Campbell, 7th Baron Blythswood (1919–1940)
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in the Commons as an MP and later as with subsequent generations in the
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Sholto Campbell, 2nd Baron Blythswood (1839–1916), brother of the above
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under chief officer William Simpson Ure was sunk by U-99 in 1940.
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was demolished in 1935 and its lands became Renfrew Golf Club.
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Sir Archibald had already gained that style by being created a
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Graeme Smith (2021). Glasgow's Blythswood. ISBN 9780955942020
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Extinct baronies in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
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Archibald Campbell, 1st Baron Blythswood (1835–1908)
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Blythswood
County of Renfrew
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Sir Archibald Campbell, 1st Baronet
Renfrew
baronet
Blythswood
County of Renfrew
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Mains
major-general
British Army
brigade major
Blythswood House
James Gillespie Graham
Blythswood Hill
Blythswood Square
William Harley
Blythswood House
Inchinnan
Margaret, Duchess of Douglas
Houses of Parliament
Lords
Shepperton
chancel
Thames
Sir Archibald Campbell, 1st Baronet
Barrington Bulkeley Campbell, 3rd Baron Blythswood
Archibald Campbell, 4th Baron Blythswood

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