Person:Colin Campbell (81)

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Lord Colin Campbell
b.9 Mar 1853
d.18 Jun 1895 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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m. 31 Jul 1844
  1. John Douglas Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll1845 - 1914
  2. Lord Archibald Campbell1846 - 1913
  3. Lord Walter Campbell1848 - 1889
  4. Lady Edith Campbell1849 - 1913
  5. Lord George Granville Campbell1850 - 1915
  6. Lord Colin Campbell1853 - 1895
  7. Lady Victoria Campbell1854 - 1910
  8. Lord Evelyn Campbell1855 - 1940
  9. Lady Frances Campbell1858 - 1931
  10. Lady Mary Emma Campbell1859 - 1947
  11. Lady Elisabeth Campbell - 1896
  12. Lady Constance Harriett Campbell1864 - 1922
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Name Lord Colin Campbell
Gender Male
Birth[1] 9 Mar 1853
Marriage to Gertrude Elizabeth Blood
Death[1] 18 Jun 1895 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Reference Number? Q16066471?


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Lord Colin Campbell (9 March 1853 – 18 June 1895) was a Scottish Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1878 to 1885.

Campbell was the fifth son of George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, and his wife Lady Elizabeth Georgiana, daughter of George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland. He was educated at Eton College, St Andrews University and Trinity College, Cambridge. He entered Middle Temple in 1875 and was a lieutenant in the 2nd Argyll Rifle Volunteers. He entered Parliament for Argyllshire in 1878, a seat he held until 1885. A number of Campbell's constituents became disenchanted with him, adopting a parody of a traditional song about the Campbell family: "But their aim, and their claim, which are one and the same,/Are founded in falsehoods of sand, you know./The Campbells are cunning, oho, oho .." One consequence of Campbell's unpopularity was that his brother, the Marquess of Lorne, Queen Victoria's son-in-law, who had previously been MP for Argyllshire and was seeking to return to politics after a spell as Governor-General of Canada, felt compelled to find a seat outside Scotland. He stood as Liberal candidate for Hampstead in 1885, but lost.

Campbell married Gertrude Elizabeth Blood (1857–1911), daughter of Irish landowner Edmund Maghlin Blood, in 1881. They had no children and were separated in 1884, partially because of Gertrude Blood's firm belief that Campbell had infected her with syphilis. An acrimonious legal battle followed in 1886, resulting in Gertrude's being denied a divorce. The notorious trial involved accusations of adultery from both sides, and visits by the jury to the Campbell's London home at 79 Cadogan Place to verify testimony about what the butler saw through a keyhole of Lady Colin Campbell's encounters with other men. The couple remained married until Lord Colin's death in Bombay in 1895 from syphilis.

Gertrude Elizabeth became a well-known socialite, writer and wit. She died in November 1911.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lord Colin Campbell, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
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