Colgrain

{{Short description|Village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland}}

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| official_name = Colgrain

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| unitary_scotland = Argyll and Bute

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| constituency_westminster = Argyll and Bute

| constituency_scottish_parliament = Dumbarton

| post_town = DUMBARTON

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Colgrain is a village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, located to the east of Helensburgh.{{cite web|url=http://www.scottish-places.info/towns/townfirst3772.html|title=Colgrain: Overview|work=Gazetteer for Scotland|accessdate=28 March 2018}}

The name Colgrain is known from at least 1377 when Sir William Denzeltoun (of Colgrane) gives his consent to a grant made by his father, Sir John Denzeltoun of that Ilk, to the church of Glasgow.{{cite web|url=http://digital.nls.uk/histories-of-scottish-families/archive/95673327?mode=transcription|title=Some account of the family of Dennistoun of Dennistoun and Colgrain|publisher=National Library of Scotland|accessdate=28 March 2018}}

See also

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  • Jock Campbell, Baron Campbell of Eskan 'of Camis Eskan in the County of Dumbarton'.{{London Gazette |issue=43873 |date=14 January 1966 |page=435}} His great grandfather Colin Campbell (Junior) of Colgrain and Camis Eskan (1818–86), a wealthy sugar merchant who owned plantations in British Guiana.{{cite web|title=William Middleton Campbell|url=http://www.mackintosh-architecture.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/name/?nid=CampWM&xml=chr|website=gla.ac.uk|accessdate=7 August 2015}}

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