Lord Colin Campbell (9 March 1853 – 18 June 1895) was a Scottish
Liberal
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politician who sat in the
House of Commons
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from 1878 to 1885.
Campbell was the fifth son of
George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll
George John Douglas Campbell, 8th and 1st Duke of Argyll (30 April 1823 – 24 April 1900; styled Marquess of Lorne until 1847), was a Scottish polymath and Liberal statesman. He made a significant geological discovery in the 1850s when his ten ...
, and his wife Lady Elizabeth Georgiana, daughter of
George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland
George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland, KG (8 August 178627 February 1861), styled Viscount Trentham until 1803, Earl Gower between 1803 and 1833 and Marquess of Stafford in 1833, was a British Whig MP and peer fro ...
. He was educated at
Eton College
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,
St Andrews University
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and
Trinity College, Cambridge
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. He entered
Middle Temple
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in 1875 and was a lieutenant in the 2nd Argyll Rifle Volunteers.
[Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1881]
/ref> He entered Parliament for Argyllshire
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Argyll is of ancient origin, and corresponds to most of the part of the ancient kingdom of ...
in 1878
Events January–March
* January 5 – Russo-Turkish War – Battle of Shipka Pass IV: Russian and Bulgarian forces defeat the Ottoman Empire.
* January 9 – Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
* January 17 – Battle o ...
, 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
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, Queen Victoria
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'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
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, felt compelled to find a seat outside Scotland. He stood as Liberal candidate for Hampstead
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in 1885, but lost.
Campbell married Gertrude Elizabeth Blood
Gertrude Elizabeth, Lady Colin Campbell (''née'' Blood; 3 May 1857 – 1 November 1911) was an Irish-born journalist, author, playwright, and editor. She was married to Lord Colin Campbell, a brother-in-law of Princess Louise, Queen Victoria's ...
(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
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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
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in 1895 from syphilis.
Gertrude Elizabeth became a well-known socialite, writer and wit. She died in November 1911.Biography of Lady Colin Campbell
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1853 births
1895 deaths
People educated at Eton College
Alumni of the University of St Andrews
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Younger sons of dukes
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies
UK MPs 1874–1880
UK MPs 1880–1885
Colin Colin may refer to:
* Colin (given name)
* Colin (surname)
* ''Colin'' (film), a 2008 Cannes film festival zombie movie
* Colin (horse) (1905–1932), thoroughbred racehorse
* Colin (humpback whale), a humpback whale calf abandoned north of Sydney, ...
Deaths from syphilis