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- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Alexander_Montgomerie
Mungo was the son of a Provost of Ayr, born in 1712, and one of twenty-four children. An uncle, also Mungo Campbell, paid for him to have a good education but died when the Mungo was about eighteen years of age. He joined the Scots Greys regiment, then commanded by his relation, General Campbell, and served in two campaigns. After the battle of Dettingen, at which he took part, he had an opportunity of being appointed quartermaster, however he could not raise the required sum of money and it went to another. He left the army and went back to Scotland in 1745, where Lord Loudoun, a relation, was in command of the loyal Highlanders and Mungo fought with him. After the battle of Culloden, Lord Loudoun arranged for him to be appointed in 1746 as an excise officer In Newmilns, then Stewarton, afterwards Irvine and finally Saltcoats
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1712 - 1770 (58 years)
