Campbell family of Cawdor (per. 1511–1821), highland chiefs, landowners, and politicians, provide a rare example of a Campbell family based some distance from Argyll which until the end of the seventeenth century, following the pattern of the clan, remained closely associated with its chief and his affairs. The family was founded by the marriage in 1511 of ...
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Andrew Mackillop, Jean Munro, and R. W. Munro
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MacDonnell, Randal, first earl of Antrim (d. 1636), chieftain and landowner, was the fourth of the five sons of Sorley Boy MacDonnell (b. in or before 1508, d. 1590), Scots-Irish chieftain, and his wife, Mary (d. 1582), daughter of Con O'Neill, first earl of Tyrone...