Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll was a Scottish nobleman, politician, and peer. The de facto head of Scotland's government during most of the conflict of the 1640s and 1650s known as the War
The Marquess of Argyll, by David Scougall
Portrait traditionally identified as the 9th Earl, but subsequently confirmed as being of the 8th Earl in his youth (Scottish Notes and Queries, v11, pp.5–6). His biographer John Willcock believed that it dated from his 1626 marriage.
Photograph of now lost portrait of c.1644, attributed to George Jamesone, of Archibald Campbell, Marquess of Argyll, formerly at Castle Campbell. The painting, rediscovered in an estate cottage in c.1870, was destroyed in an 1877 fire at Inveraray Castle.
Memorial to Argyll in St. Giles Kirk, Edinburgh
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The Wars of the Three Kingdoms is the collective term for a series of conflicts fought between 1639 and 1653 in England, Scotland, and Ireland, then separate entities in a personal union under Charles
Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll
…a Scottish nobleman, politician, and peer. The de facto head of Scotland's government during most of the conflict of the 1640s and 1650s known as the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, he was the main leader of the Covenanter movement that fought for the Establishment of Presbyterianism in opposition to the preference of King Charles…
Charles I by Anthony van Dyck, painted 1635–1636
The spark, a riot in St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, reputedly started by Jenny Geddes throwing a wooden stool
King Charles I and Prince Rupert before the Battle of Naseby
The English and Scots armies lovingly embrace each other.