.... He was the seventh and youngest child of the Rev. George Campbell, minister of Cupar, and Magdalen, daughter of John Hallyberton, Esq., the head of a family possessing large landed estates in Forfarshire, Scotland , and was born at Cupar, St. Andrews, in the county of Fife, Scotland, on the 15th of September, 1781. His lineage was noble, and could be traced on his father's side to the Ducal house of Argyl...