WHARTON, Mary ¹

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Mary married Colonel James CAMPBELL of Burnbank and Boquhan, MP, son of Archibald CAMPBELL Lord Lorne, 9th Earl of Argyll and Mary STEWART.¹ The marriage ended in annulment. (Colonel James CAMPBELL of Burnbank and Boquhan, MP was born about 1652 and died after 1710 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"James Campbell, of Burnbank and Boquhan; educated at Glasgow University; was, on the 17 May 1685, confined in Edinburgh Castle, that he might not join his father. On 14 November 1690, he, with the assistance of Archibald Montgomery and Sir John Johnston, of Caskieben, in Aberdeenshire, Bart., forcibly carried off and married Mary, daughter of Sir George Wharton, a girl of thirteen, with an estate of £1500 per annum, from her mother's house in London. The marriage was annulled by Act of Parliament, and Sir John Johnston was executed at Tyburn for being concerned in this outrage. Mr. Campbell escaped, was a captain of Dragoons, afterwards attained the rank of colonel, and was elected Member of Parliament for Renfrew 1699-1702, and for the Ayr Burghs 1708-10."

from Scots Peerage (vol 1) ¹