The title Earl of Breadalbane and Holland was created in the Peerage of Scotland in 1681 for John Campbell, 1st Earl of Caithness, who resigned the Earldom of Caithness in favour of George Sinclair in exchange for the new Earldom. The 4th Earl was created Marquess of Breadalbane in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1831, but this title became extinct at the death of the 2nd Marquess (and 5th Earl). The Marquessate was created again for the 7th Earl, but became extinct at his death. The Earldom became extinct at the death of the 10th Earl. The Peerage of Scotland is the division of the British Peerage for those peers created in the Kingdom of Scotland before 1707. ... Events March 4 - Charles II of England grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania. ... John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland (b. ... The title Earl of Caithness has been created several times in the Peerage of Scotland, and has a very complex history. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801. ... 1831 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
BREADALBANE (properly BROADALBIN), earl and marquis of, the former a title in the peerage of Scotland, and the latter in that of Great Britain, possessed by a branch of the noble family of Campbell.
Sir Colin Campbell, the ancestor of the Breadalbane family, and the first of the house of Glenurchy, was the third son of Duncan, first Lord Campbell of Lochow, progenitor of the dukes of Argyle, by Marjory Stewart, daughter of Robert, duke of Albany, regent of Scotland.
The mother of the fourth earl and first marquis of Breadalbane, was Elizabeth, daughter of Archibald Campbell of Stonefield, sheriff of Argyleshire, and sister of John Campbell, judicially styled Lord Stonefield, a lord of session and justiciary.
The son of 6th Earl of Breadalbane and Mary Theresa, he was educated at St Andrews.
He was created BaronBreadalbane in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1873.
He was a Lord-in-Waiting to the Queen, Treasurer of Queen's Household, 1880–1885; Lord Steward, 1892–1895; Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1893, 1894 and 1895.
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