Sir James Campbell, 5th Baronet

Sir James Campbell of Auchinbreck, 5th Baronet (1679 – 14 October 1756) was a Scottish Jacobite[1] politician and landowner.

[2] His grandmother Lady Anna Mackenzie, governess to William III, married his grandfather Lord Balneil and then remarried Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll.

[1] Restoring the Stuart monarchs also provided Auchinbreck with opportunity to regain wealth and prominence which was not otherwise attainable.

During the Jacobite rising of 1745 Auchinbreck, who considered himself too elderly too participate in the rebellion, was arrested and imprisoned at Dumbarton Castle.

Forced to live off of sparse Jacobite remittances, he died on 14 October 1756 at Lochgair.