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NameJohn Campbell Colquhoun 
[36], [54, His article], [62, Lilford, p. 1708]
[36], [54, His article], [62, Lilford, p. 1708]Birth23 Jan 1803, Killerment, New Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Baptismca Feb 1803, Killerment, New Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Death17 Apr 1870, St Geo Han Sq district, London
BurialHoly Trinity Churchyard, Crockham Hill, Sevenoaks, Kent
GeneralOf Kiddermont & Garscadden, Scotland and of Chartwell, Kent.
Spouses
FatherThomas Powys Lord Lilford (1775-1825)
MotherHenrietta Maria Vernon Atherton (1772-1820)
Marriage10 Sep 1827, Warrington, Lancs [62, Lilford, p. 1708], [20, Year 1827, p. 215], [19, Marriage on tenth Sep 1827 at Warrington, Lancs]
ChildrenArchibald Campbell (1828-1872)
John Erskine (Campbell) (1831-1917)
Notes for John Campbell Colquhoun
His baptism at New Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire, Scotland:
“Campbell now Colquhoun John Campbell lawful son of Arch’d Colquhoun Esq. Killerment and Mary Anne Erskine Born 23rd Jan 1803”
The register page includes also his sisters:
Agnes born 15th Dec 1798
Mary Anne born 17 Dec 1800
Elizabeth Margaret born 27th Dec 1801
Cornelia June born 4 Jan 1804
Helen Christian (?) born 2nd Feb 1805
I wonder if they were all baptised on the same day? The first entry on this page is dated 1806.
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Death record index:
Name: Age at Death (in years):
COLQUHOUN, JOHN CAMPBELL 67
GRO Reference: 1870 J Quarter in SAINT GEORGE HANOVER SQUARE Volume 01A Page 227
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“Campbell now Colquhoun John Campbell lawful son of Arch’d Colquhoun Esq. Killerment and Mary Anne Erskine Born 23rd Jan 1803”
The register page includes also his sisters:
Agnes born 15th Dec 1798
Mary Anne born 17 Dec 1800
Elizabeth Margaret born 27th Dec 1801
Cornelia June born 4 Jan 1804
Helen Christian (?) born 2nd Feb 1805
I wonder if they were all baptised on the same day? The first entry on this page is dated 1806.
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Death record index:
Name: Age at Death (in years):
COLQUHOUN, JOHN CAMPBELL 67
GRO Reference: 1870 J Quarter in SAINT GEORGE HANOVER SQUARE Volume 01A Page 227
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DNB Main notes for John Campbell Colquhoun
Colquhoun, John Campbell 1803-1870
Name: Colquhoun, John Campbell
Dates: 1803-1870
Active Date: 1843
Gender: Male
Field of Interest: Literature and Writing
Occupation: Miscellaneous writer
Place of
Birth: Edinburgh
Education: High school, Edinburgh, Oriel College, Oxford
Sources|: Men of the Time, 7th ed.; Brit. Mus. Cat.
Contributor
T. F. H. [Thomas Finlayson Henderson]
Article
Colquhoun, John Campbell 1803-1870, miscellaneous writer, eldest son of Archibald Campbell-Colquhoun [q.v.], was born in Edinburgh on 23 Jan. 1803, and educated at the high school, Edinburgh, and at Oriel College, Oxford. In 1832 he was elected member for Dumbartonshire, and in 1837 for the Kilmarnock burghs. He unsuccessfully contested the Kilmarnock burghs in July 1841, but was elected in July 1842 one of the members for Newcastle-under-Lyme, which he continued to represent till the dissolution of 1847, when he retired from reasons of health. He was chairman of the general committee of the National Club, of the Church of England Education Society, and of the Irish Church Mission to Roman Catholics. Besides a number of political and religious pamphlets upon questions of the day in Scotland and Ireland, he was the author of `Short Sketches of some Notable Lives,' 1855; `Life in Italy and France in the Olden Time,' 1858; `Scattered Leaves of Biography,' 1864; `William Wilberforce, his Friends and his Times,' 1866, 2nd edit. 1867; and `Memorials of Henrietta Maria Colquhoun,' 1870. He died 17 April 1870.
Sources
Men of the Time, 7th ed.; Brit. Mus. Cat.
Contributor: T. F. H.
published 1887
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Colquhoun, John Campbell
(1803–1870)
John Wolffe
https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/5991
Published in print: 23 September 2004Published online: 23 September 2004
Colquhoun, John Campbell (1803–1870), politician and writer, was born at Killermont, Dunbartonshire, on 23 January 1803, the elder son of Archibald Campbell-Colquhoun (c. 1754–1820), lord clerk register, and his wife, Mary Anne (d. 1833), daughter of William Erskine, Episcopalian minister of Muthill. He was educated at Edinburgh high school and Oriel College, Oxford, where he matriculated in March 1820 and took his BA, with first-class honours, in 1823. On the death of his father in 1820 he inherited Killermont, and in 1821 he also inherited estates at Garscadden from his kinswoman Jean Colquhoun. On 10 September 1827 he married Henrietta Maria Powys (1799–1870), eldest daughter of Thomas Powys, second Baron Lilford. She was to be a strong influence on him, particularly in reinforcing his evangelical inclinations. They had two sons.
Colquhoun began his political career as an advocate of moderate reform. He was first returned to parliament in 1832, representing Dunbartonshire and sitting as a radical. Over the next few years, however, his evangelical convictions led him to join the growing rally in defence of the established churches and hence to change his political loyalties. Between 1834 and 1836 he played a major part in extra-parliamentary agitation in defence of the Church of Ireland, and subsequently campaigned in favour of the maintenance of church rates in England. He did not contest the 1835 general election, but in 1837 was returned for the Kilmarnock burghs, as a tory.
In the late 1830s Colquhoun was admitted to the inner counsels of the Conservative Party, where his staunch protestantism was found consistent with the mood of the moment. At the same time Thomas Chalmers saw him as the potential leader of 'a religious party in Parliament' (Colquhoun MSS, bundle 85, 26 June 1841). Although himself an Episcopalian, Colquhoun supported the causes of evangelicalism and non-intrusion in the Church of Scotland. In the 1841 general election campaign, however, he refused demands to make his support for Peel conditional on the latter agreeing to further the cause of the church's independence. He accordingly lost his seat and, subsequently, desiring above all to see the Church of Scotland strong and united, he was to regard the Disruption in 1843 as a calamity. Thereafter he distanced himself from his Scottish roots.
Although Colquhoun was shortly to be back in the Commons, returned for Newcastle under Lyme at a by-election in 1842, Peel failed to reward his loyalty and left him on the back benches at a juncture when his views were becoming politically less convenient. In 1845 the Maynooth question was the spark which ignited Colquhoun's feelings of personal betrayal and outraged principle. He moved to open revolt against the prime minister, not only opposing him in the house, but also publishing pamphlets denouncing the government's record. In addition he organized the National Club as a rallying point for those who sought a stronger protestant and Anglican basis for politics. Nevertheless, despite his evident ambition, he lacked a sufficiently credible and broad basis of support to become a major player in the post-Peel Conservative Party.
In 1847 Colquhoun, suffering from failing health and political disappointment, decided to take 'refuge in religious politics' and rule 'supreme in Exeter Hall' (Disraeli MSS, A/X/A/13). He retired from parliament and over the next two decades took a prominent role in the National Club and in other Anglican societies committed to the maintenance of protestant interests, notably the Irish Church Missions and, in the 1860s, the Church Association. He also developed his literary and historical interests. As well as several pamphlets on contemporary political and religious questions, he published a historical volume on France and Italy, and a number of biographical works.
Colquhoun was devastated by his wife's death in January 1870, and himself died at home at 8 Chesham Street, London, on 17 April 1870. He was buried at Crockham church, Kent. In his youth he had seemed to be a man with outstanding prospects, but he eventually showed himself lacking in the toughness and breadth of outlook requisite for a successful secular politician. His most significant role was as a key lay leader of Anglican evangelicalism in the generation after the death of William Wilberforce.
Sources
J. C. Colquhoun, Memorials of H[enrietta] M[aria] C[olquhoun] (1870)
Google PreviewWorldCat
J. Wolffe, The protestant crusade in Great Britain, 1829–1860 (1991)
Google PreviewWorldCat
B. Disraeli, memorandum, Bodleian Library, Oxford
Bodl. Oxf., Dep. Hughenden A/X/A/13
Cultybraggan Estates Office, Comrie, Perthshire, Colquhoun MSS
letter, Colquhoun to Graham, 22 June 1841, British Library, London
BL, Graham MSS, Add. MS 40318, fol. 275
J. Burke, , 4 vols. (1833–8); new edn as , 3 vols. [1843–9] [many later edns]
Burke, Gen. GB
J. Burke, A general [later edns A genealogical] and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the United Kingdom [later edns the British empire] (1829–)
Burke, Peerage
National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh
NA Scot., GD 314/62 [undertaker's bill and legal papers]
, Church of Jesus Christ of the Latterday Saints
IGI
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Name: Colquhoun, John Campbell
Dates: 1803-1870
Active Date: 1843
Gender: Male
Field of Interest: Literature and Writing
Occupation: Miscellaneous writer
Place of
Birth: Edinburgh
Education: High school, Edinburgh, Oriel College, Oxford
Sources|: Men of the Time, 7th ed.; Brit. Mus. Cat.
Contributor
T. F. H. [Thomas Finlayson Henderson]
Article
Colquhoun, John Campbell 1803-1870, miscellaneous writer, eldest son of Archibald Campbell-Colquhoun [q.v.], was born in Edinburgh on 23 Jan. 1803, and educated at the high school, Edinburgh, and at Oriel College, Oxford. In 1832 he was elected member for Dumbartonshire, and in 1837 for the Kilmarnock burghs. He unsuccessfully contested the Kilmarnock burghs in July 1841, but was elected in July 1842 one of the members for Newcastle-under-Lyme, which he continued to represent till the dissolution of 1847, when he retired from reasons of health. He was chairman of the general committee of the National Club, of the Church of England Education Society, and of the Irish Church Mission to Roman Catholics. Besides a number of political and religious pamphlets upon questions of the day in Scotland and Ireland, he was the author of `Short Sketches of some Notable Lives,' 1855; `Life in Italy and France in the Olden Time,' 1858; `Scattered Leaves of Biography,' 1864; `William Wilberforce, his Friends and his Times,' 1866, 2nd edit. 1867; and `Memorials of Henrietta Maria Colquhoun,' 1870. He died 17 April 1870.
Sources
Men of the Time, 7th ed.; Brit. Mus. Cat.
Contributor: T. F. H.
published 1887
__________________________________________________
Colquhoun, John Campbell
(1803–1870)
John Wolffe
https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/5991
Published in print: 23 September 2004Published online: 23 September 2004
Colquhoun, John Campbell (1803–1870), politician and writer, was born at Killermont, Dunbartonshire, on 23 January 1803, the elder son of Archibald Campbell-Colquhoun (c. 1754–1820), lord clerk register, and his wife, Mary Anne (d. 1833), daughter of William Erskine, Episcopalian minister of Muthill. He was educated at Edinburgh high school and Oriel College, Oxford, where he matriculated in March 1820 and took his BA, with first-class honours, in 1823. On the death of his father in 1820 he inherited Killermont, and in 1821 he also inherited estates at Garscadden from his kinswoman Jean Colquhoun. On 10 September 1827 he married Henrietta Maria Powys (1799–1870), eldest daughter of Thomas Powys, second Baron Lilford. She was to be a strong influence on him, particularly in reinforcing his evangelical inclinations. They had two sons.
Colquhoun began his political career as an advocate of moderate reform. He was first returned to parliament in 1832, representing Dunbartonshire and sitting as a radical. Over the next few years, however, his evangelical convictions led him to join the growing rally in defence of the established churches and hence to change his political loyalties. Between 1834 and 1836 he played a major part in extra-parliamentary agitation in defence of the Church of Ireland, and subsequently campaigned in favour of the maintenance of church rates in England. He did not contest the 1835 general election, but in 1837 was returned for the Kilmarnock burghs, as a tory.
In the late 1830s Colquhoun was admitted to the inner counsels of the Conservative Party, where his staunch protestantism was found consistent with the mood of the moment. At the same time Thomas Chalmers saw him as the potential leader of 'a religious party in Parliament' (Colquhoun MSS, bundle 85, 26 June 1841). Although himself an Episcopalian, Colquhoun supported the causes of evangelicalism and non-intrusion in the Church of Scotland. In the 1841 general election campaign, however, he refused demands to make his support for Peel conditional on the latter agreeing to further the cause of the church's independence. He accordingly lost his seat and, subsequently, desiring above all to see the Church of Scotland strong and united, he was to regard the Disruption in 1843 as a calamity. Thereafter he distanced himself from his Scottish roots.
Although Colquhoun was shortly to be back in the Commons, returned for Newcastle under Lyme at a by-election in 1842, Peel failed to reward his loyalty and left him on the back benches at a juncture when his views were becoming politically less convenient. In 1845 the Maynooth question was the spark which ignited Colquhoun's feelings of personal betrayal and outraged principle. He moved to open revolt against the prime minister, not only opposing him in the house, but also publishing pamphlets denouncing the government's record. In addition he organized the National Club as a rallying point for those who sought a stronger protestant and Anglican basis for politics. Nevertheless, despite his evident ambition, he lacked a sufficiently credible and broad basis of support to become a major player in the post-Peel Conservative Party.
In 1847 Colquhoun, suffering from failing health and political disappointment, decided to take 'refuge in religious politics' and rule 'supreme in Exeter Hall' (Disraeli MSS, A/X/A/13). He retired from parliament and over the next two decades took a prominent role in the National Club and in other Anglican societies committed to the maintenance of protestant interests, notably the Irish Church Missions and, in the 1860s, the Church Association. He also developed his literary and historical interests. As well as several pamphlets on contemporary political and religious questions, he published a historical volume on France and Italy, and a number of biographical works.
Colquhoun was devastated by his wife's death in January 1870, and himself died at home at 8 Chesham Street, London, on 17 April 1870. He was buried at Crockham church, Kent. In his youth he had seemed to be a man with outstanding prospects, but he eventually showed himself lacking in the toughness and breadth of outlook requisite for a successful secular politician. His most significant role was as a key lay leader of Anglican evangelicalism in the generation after the death of William Wilberforce.
Sources
J. C. Colquhoun, Memorials of H[enrietta] M[aria] C[olquhoun] (1870)
Google PreviewWorldCat
J. Wolffe, The protestant crusade in Great Britain, 1829–1860 (1991)
Google PreviewWorldCat
B. Disraeli, memorandum, Bodleian Library, Oxford
Bodl. Oxf., Dep. Hughenden A/X/A/13
Cultybraggan Estates Office, Comrie, Perthshire, Colquhoun MSS
letter, Colquhoun to Graham, 22 June 1841, British Library, London
BL, Graham MSS, Add. MS 40318, fol. 275
J. Burke, , 4 vols. (1833–8); new edn as , 3 vols. [1843–9] [many later edns]
Burke, Gen. GB
J. Burke, A general [later edns A genealogical] and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the United Kingdom [later edns the British empire] (1829–)
Burke, Peerage
National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh
NA Scot., GD 314/62 [undertaker's bill and legal papers]
, Church of Jesus Christ of the Latterday Saints
IGI
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Notes for John Campbell & Henrietta Maria (Family)
Their marriage from the image of the regisgter page, thanks FamilySearch and Ancestry, transcript by me:
“ [ Page 214 ]
“Marriages solemnized in the parish of Warrington
“ in the County of Lancaster in the Year 1827
“. . . .
“John Campbell Colquhoun of the Parish
“of Kilpatrick in the county of Dumbarton North Britain
“and Henrietta Maria Powys of this Parish
“were married in this Church by licence with Consent of
Parties this tenth Day of
“September in the Year On Thousand eight hundred and twenty seven
“ By me James J Hornby Officiating Minister
“This Marriage was solemnized between us: John Campbell Colquhoun, Henriette Maria Powys
“In the Presence of Horace Powys, Eleanor Powys
“No 64
I am not sure who Horace and Eleanor Powys were. Eleanor might have been Henrietta M’s immediately younger sister. Horace could have been her young brother Horatio, aged 22 or so, later the bishop of Sodor and Man.
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“ [ Page 214 ]
“Marriages solemnized in the parish of Warrington
“ in the County of Lancaster in the Year 1827
“. . . .
“John Campbell Colquhoun of the Parish
“of Kilpatrick in the county of Dumbarton North Britain
“and Henrietta Maria Powys of this Parish
“were married in this Church by licence with Consent of
Parties this tenth Day of
“September in the Year On Thousand eight hundred and twenty seven
“ By me James J Hornby Officiating Minister
“This Marriage was solemnized between us: John Campbell Colquhoun, Henriette Maria Powys
“In the Presence of Horace Powys, Eleanor Powys
“No 64
I am not sure who Horace and Eleanor Powys were. Eleanor might have been Henrietta M’s immediately younger sister. Horace could have been her young brother Horatio, aged 22 or so, later the bishop of Sodor and Man.
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