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Robert Neil Campbell

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. A son of Robert Campbell, of the British Linen Company's Bank, Edinburgh, and his wife Eliza Hamilton Forman, he was educated at the Edinburgh Institution for Languages and Mathematics and the

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. After graduating as a physician, he joined the Bengal Medical Service, which he rose to command. He was knighted in 1917."Campbell K.C.M.G. SIR (ROBERT) NEIL CAMPBELL " in ''Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage'' (1923), p. 151 Campbell retired to 29, Medina Villas,

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, Sussex, but died at

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, while on a visit to India, in February 1928, aged 73."Deaths in the Services: Sir Robert Neil Campbell" in '' British Medical Journal'', Vol. for 1928, p. 474 On 3 August 1881, at Lahore, Campbell married Ethel Bensley (1860–1927). They had four sons, William Norman (1884–1907), Neil Hamilton (1885–1886), Robert Charles Cowburn (1889–1915), and George Edward Forman Campbell (1893–1915), the last two of whom were killed in action in the First World War; and two daughters, Ethell Mary (1891–1939) and Margaret Amy (1898–1980). On 2 September 1918, in

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, India, Margaret Amy married Robert McGregor MacDonald Lockhart (1893—1981), a future Commander-in-Chief of the

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.''Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage'' (1963), p. 2810

Honours

*1909: Companion of the

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*1912: Companion of the

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*1913: Knight of Grace of the

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'', 5 December 1913, Issue:12622
p. 1329
/ref> *1917: Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Campbell, Robert Neil 1854 births 1928 deaths Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire People educated at Stewart's Melville College 19th-century Scottish medical doctors 20th-century Scottish medical doctors