Archibald Campbell (Glasgow MP)

He was born Archibald Douglas, the second son of Col. James Douglas of Mains who inherited the vast Blythswood estate in Glasgow stretching west from Buchanan Street to the River Kelvin in 1767 and was thereafter known as Campbell of Blythswood.

[1] On his father's death the estate passed to the first son Lt Col John Campbell, but on John's death, being killed in Martinique in 1794, the estate passed to Archibald, those parts closest to Glasgow now being sold to developers, most notably William Harley, to create the New Town of Blythswood which John Campbell had enabled by Act of Parliament in 1792.

He retired from the army when he inherited the family estate at Blythswood, Renfrewshire.

He served as Lord-lieutenant of Renfrewshire from 1826 to his death and as Rector of Glasgow University from 1809 to 1811.

[3][4] A marble bust of Campbell by James Fillans resides in a private collection in this United States while a copy is displayed at the Paisley Sheriff Court in Scotland.