Lt. Col. Arthur Campbell-Walker (1834 – 2 April 1887) was a Scottish soldier, politician and

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player, who taught at the

School of Musketry The Small Arms School Corps (SASC) is a small corps of the British Army, established in 1853 by Lord Hardinge. Its personnel provide advice and instruction to infantry weapon trainers throughout the army, in order to maintain proficiency in th ...

Fleetwood Fleetwood is a coastal town in the Borough of Wyre in Lancashire, England, at the northwest corner of the Fylde. It had a population of 25,939 at the 2011 census. Fleetwood acquired its modern character in the 1830s, when the principal lando ...

. Campbell-Walker was born in Forfarshire or Dundee. He was a keen golf player who has been credited with founding the Fleetwood Golf Club. Campbell-Walker had a distinguished

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career. He was

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in the 79th Foot ( Queens Own Cameron Highlanders) and took part in the

Crimea War The Crimean War, , was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between Russia and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Piedmont-Sardinia. Geopolitical causes of the war included the d ...

. He was present at the siege of Lucknow during the

Indian Rebellion of 1857 The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown. The rebellion began on 10 May 1857 in the fo ...

. He was appointed as an instructor at the School of Musketry, and became an advocate of

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s as means of strengthening the

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of the

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. He was subsequently Adjutant to two of the Rifle Volunteer forces,

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, (1868–1877) and the Hertfordshire (1877–1883). He was captain and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society at the time of publishing ''Correct Card''. He married firstly to Katharine Maria Barlow (1844–1874), with whom he had four sons. He married secondly in 1883 in

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, Sussex, to Adelaide Lucy Katherine Marton Mowbray, widow of General Edward Mowbray R.A. At the time he was reported to be the "accepted" Conservative candidate for Westbury, but he did not take part in the election. He twice unsuccessfully contested

Great Grimsby Grimsby or Great Grimsby is a port town and the administrative centre of North East Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England. Grimsby adjoins the town of Cleethorpes directly to the south-east forming a conurbation. Grimsby is north-east of Linc ...

, and in 1886, announced that he would contest Midlothian against

William Ewart Gladstone William Ewart Gladstone ( ; 29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British statesman and Liberal politician. In a career lasting over 60 years, he served for 12 years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, spread over four non-conse ...

on account of Gladstone's support for Irish independence; however, Gladstone ran unopposed. He died in Brighton in 1887, when it was reported that, "He will be remembered as having fought two good battles in the Conservative cause at Grimsby, and his doctors believed that the last of these was most prejudicial to his health, even if it was not directly responsible for his death." He was the brother of Col. Inches Campbell-Walker (1842-1911).

Works

*
The Rifle: its Theory and Practice
' (1864) * ''Coast Railways and Railway Artillery'' (1865) *
The Correct Card: A Whist Catechism
' (1876)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Campbell Walker, Arthur Scottish male golfers British Army personnel of the Crimean War British military writers 1887 deaths 1834 births British people in colonial India