Colonel Charles Campbell was a Scottish soldier and politician of the seventeenth and eighteenth century.
The same year he accompanied his father on an expedition to Scotland as part of Argyll's Rising, and was sent ashore when they arrived off the coast of Argyllshire to bring intelligence of the disposition of the gentlemen and common people.
He was then sent ashore a second time to levy men but, falling ill, was seized by the Marquess of Atholl, who by virtue of his justiciary power resolved to hang him, sick or well, at the gate of Inveraray Castle.
The Privy Council, however, at the intercession of several ladies, stopped the execution, and ordered him to be carried prisoner to Edinburgh.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: "Campbell, Duke of Argyll" by Donald C. V. Campbell, in The Scots Peerage, volume I (Edinburgh, 1904) edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, p. 367.