Campbell

Campbell, an ancient and illustrious Scottish family, to which genealogists have chosen to assign an Anglo-Norman origin, deriving its surname from the Latin De Campo Bello. According, however, to the Duke of Argyll, it is purely Celtic, of Scot-Irish origin; and Cambel, as the name was always formerly written, is just the Celtic cam beul, 'curved mouth.' Sir Duncan Campbell of Lochow, created Lord Campbell in 1445, and his descendants, the ducal house of Argyll (q.v.), have been noticed already. From his younger son, Sir Colin Campbell of Glenorchy (circa 1400-78), are descended the earls and marquises of Breadalbane (creations 1681 and 1831-85); and from the younger son of the second Earl of Argyll, who fell at Flodden in 1513, the earls of Cawdor (created 1827).