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- John 5th Duke of Argyll, was the son of 4th Duke. Born in 1723. He married in 1759, Elizabeth, widow of James, sixth Duke of Hamilton, the second of three beautiful Miss Gunnings, daughters of John Gunning, Esq of Castle Coote, county Roscommon, Ireland. They had three sons and two daughters. In the army he reached the ranks of general in March 1778, and field-marshall in 1796. He was created a British peer as Baron Sundridge of Coomb-bank in Kent, 19th December 1766. He was chosen the first president of the Highland Society of Scotland, to which he made a gift of one thousand pounds in 1806, as the beginning of a fund for educating young men of the West Highlands for the navy. He died 24th May 1806, in the 83rd year of his age.
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John, the fifth Duke, served against the Highlanders at Falkirk and Culloden in the
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Abt 1723 - 1806 (82 years)
