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Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll

1607 - 1661

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Archibald Campbell, Marquess of Argyll, 8th Earl of Argyll, Chief of Clan Campbell (March 1607 – 27 May 1661) 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 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 I and the Caroline Divines for instead Establishing both High Church Anglicanism and Bishops. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll has received more than 207,589 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll is the 14,917th most popular politician.

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Among politicians, Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll ranks 14,917 out of 15,577Before him are Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Jaroslav Walter, Joseph Cook, Princess Louise Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg, Imangali Tasmagambetov, and Michael Foot. After him are Hubert Minnis, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Mishaal bint Fahd Al Saud, Laura Codruța Kövesi, Lucio Gutiérrez, and Eligio Ayala.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1607, Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll ranks 17Before him are Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Nicolas Henri, Duke of Orléans, Antonio Barberini, Song Si-yeol, Dorothea of Anhalt-Zerbst, and Johann von Rist.  Among people deceased in 1661, Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll ranks 19Before him are Teimuraz I of Kakheti, Guru Har Rai, Pieter de Molijn, Pyotr Beketov, Thomas Fuller, and Shah Shuja.

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