Walter Campbell, 3rd of Shawfield and Islay and 9th of Skipness (29 December 1741 – 19 October 1816) was a Scottish landowner, advocate and Rector of Glasgow University.

Early life

Campbell was born on 29 December 1741 into the Clan Campbell of Cawdor. He was a son of John Campbell of

Shawfield Shawfield is an industrial/commercial area of the Royal Burgh of Rutherglen in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, located to the north of the town centre. It is bordered to the east by the River Clyde, to the north by the Glasgow neighbourhood of Oatl ...

(1696–1746) and Lady Henrietta Cunningham, who married in 1735. His father had been previously married, without issue, to Lady Margaret Campbell (a daughter of

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and sister of John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun). His older brothers were Daniel Campbell, 2nd of Shawfield (an MP for

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who died unmarried in 1777) and John Campbell, 8th of Skipness. His maternal grandparents were

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and Lady Henrietta Stewart (second daughter of Alexander Stewart, 3rd Earl of Galloway and Lady Mary Douglas, a daughter of James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Queensberry). His cousins

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and John both became Earls of Glencairn. His paternal grandparents were Margaret (

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Leckie) Campbell (the daughter of John Leckie of Newlands) and Daniel Campbell, a follower of the Duke of Argyll who represented

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in the

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from 1702 until the

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(he was one of the commissioners who signed the treaty). He sat in the first

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and represented the Glasgow Burghs from 1716 to 1734. In 1711, he built Shawfield Mansion, his residence in Glasgow which became famous in connection with the Shawfield riots in 1725.

Career

His father died in 1746, predeceasing his grandfather, who died in 1753. Therefore, Walter's elder brother Daniel was their grandfather's heir. When Daniel died, unmarried and without issue, in 1777, Walter inherited the estate and became 3rd of Shawfield and Laird of

Islay Islay ( ; gd, Ìle, sco, Ila) is the southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. Known as "The Queen of the Hebrides", it lies in Argyll just south west of Jura, Scotland, Jura and around north of the Northern Irish coast. The isl ...

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. He qualified as an advocate in 1763 and was Sheriff-Depute of Kincardineshire from 1767 to 1777. He was recognised by

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, and matriculated his arms at the Lyon Court in 1777. He was Rector of the University of Glasgow from 1789 to 1791.

Personal life

Campbell was married twice. His marriage was to Eleanor Kerr (d. 1785) on 9 March 1768. She was a daughter of Robert Kerr of Newfield and Eleanora (née Nugent) Kerr. Her grandparents were Lord Charles Kerr (the second son of Robert Kerr, 1st Marquess of Lothian and Lady Jane Campbell, a daughter of

Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll Archibald Campbell, Marquess of Argyll, 8th Earl of Argyll, Chief of Clan Campbell (March 160727 May 1661) was a Scottish nobleman, politician, and peer. The ''de facto'' head of Scotland's government during most of the conflict of the 1640s and ...

) and the former Janet Murray (eldest daughter of Sir David Murray of Stanhope, 2nd Baronet and Lady Anne Bruce, second daughter of

Alexander Bruce, 2nd Earl of Kincardine Alexander Bruce, 2nd Earl of Kincardine FRS (1629–1681) was a Scottish inventor, politician, judge and freemason, who collaborated with Christiaan Huygens in developing a marine pendulum clock. His grandfather, Sir George Bruce had built up ...

). Together, Eleanor and Walter were the parents of: * John Campbell, 4th of Islay and of Woodhall (1770–1809), who was an army officer and a Member of Parliament who married

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, a daughter of John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll and Elizabeth Hamilton, 1st Baroness Hamilton of Hameldon. * Agnes Campbell (1770–1800), who married John Macliver (parents of Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde). * Katherine Campbell (–1855), who married

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, a cousin of Lord Liverpool, the Prime Minister from 1812 to 1827. * Margaret Campbell (–1850), who married

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. * Robert Campbell, 10th of Skipness, who married Eugenia Josephine Wynne, daughter of Richard Wynne, in 1806. * Colin Campbell of Ardpatrick (1787–1851), an Admiral in the

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who married Harriet Royds in 1826, a daughter of James Royds of Falinge. * Walter Campbell (d. 1840), of Sunderland House on Islay, who married Mary Ann King, daughter of John King, in 1814. * Daniel Campbell, who died young. * Eleanor Campbell, who died unmarried. * Harriet Campbell, who married Daniel Hamilton of Gikerscleugh (d. 1823). * Glencairn Campbell, who married Francis Carter of

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. * Elizabeth Campbell (d. 1856), who married Stuart Moncrief of Thriepland, advocate general at

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. He married, secondly, Mary (née Nisbet) Hay, the daughter of William Nisbet of

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and Mary (née Hamilton) Nisbet. His wife, the widow of Major William Hay (who was himself the widower of Lady Catherine Hay, a daughter of John Hay, 4th Marquess of Tweeddale), was the sister and heiress of MP

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(father of Mary Nisbet, who married

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). Together, Mary and Walter were the parents of: * Mary Hamilton Campbell (1789–1885), who married

James Ruthven, 7th Lord Ruthven of Freeland James Ruthven, Baron Ruthven FRSE (1777–1853) was a 19th-century Scottish peer and professional soldier. Life He was born at Melville House south of Monimail near Cupar in Fife on 17 October 1777. He was the eldest son of James Ruthven, ...

. * Hamilton Campbell (–1873), who married

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. * William Campbell (b. 1793), who died unmarried. Campbell died on 19 October 1816.

Descendants

Through his son John, he was a grandfather of

Walter Frederick Campbell Walter Frederick Campbell of Shawfield (sometimes given "of Islay") (1798–1855), was a Scottish politician. He served as the MP for Argyllshire, 1822–1832 and 1835–1841. Early life and political career He was born on 10 April 1798, th ...

, an MP for Argyllshire who inherited Islay in 1816 upon his grandfather's death. He was also the grandfather of John George Campbell (who married Ellen, a daughter of

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), Eliza Maria Campbell (wife of Sir William Gordon-Cumming, 2nd Baronet) Eleanora Campbell (wife of Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey), Harriet Charlotte Campbell (wife of

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), Emma Campbell (wife of William Russell, youngest son of

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), Adelaide Campbell (wife of Lord Arthur Lennox), and Julia Campbell (wife of Peter Langford-Brooke, of

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). Through his daughter Agnes, he was a grandfather of Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde (born Colin Macliver) who was adopted by his uncle John after his parents death. He served as

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from 1857 to 1861. Through his daughter Katherine, he was a grandfather of Katherine Jenkinson (wife of

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and mother of Adelaide, wife of the first Earl of Iveagh) and Eleanor Jenkinson (wife of the 2nd

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). Through his daughter Margaret, he was a grandfather of eight, including Lady Eleanor Charteris (who married her cousin,

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, and Lady Katherine Charteris Wemyss (who married George Grey, 8th Baron Grey of Groby). Through his son Robert, he was a grandfather of Col. Walter William Thomas Beaujolois Campbell, 11th of Skipness (1807–1877), who lived at Skipness Castle and married Anna Henrietta Loring, a daughter of Lt.-Col. Robert Loring, in 1838. Through his son Colin, he was a grandfather of Colin Glencairn Campbell (1812–1889), who married Octavia Helen Workman-Macnaghten, daughter of

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References

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