Alastair Colin Leckie Campbell, 4th Baron Colgrain, DL (born 16 September 1951), is a

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and

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. After attending

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, he went up to read English at

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, graduating as MA. Starting his career in the City with J Henry Schroder Wagg, he joined the Welbeck Group as a

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headhunter in 1985. Taken over by the Whitney Group 1991, he was promoted

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becoming its

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(Europe) in 1999. Since 2008, he has been a partner running the Campbell family

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in the Weald of Kent and served as

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for 2013/14, before being appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for

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in 2017. Lord Colgrain was elected to

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in the

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at a whole House by-election in March 2017, in place of Lord Lyell who died on 11 January 2017.

Family

Descended from a

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of the Campbells, Earls of Breadalbane, his great-grandfather, the Scottish banker Colin Campbell, was created

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in 1946. He succeeded to the family title upon his

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's death in 2008. In 1979 he married, Annabel Rose, younger daughter of

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Robin Warrender. Lord and Lady Colgrain have two sons: * Hon. Thomas David Colin Campbell (born 1984), married 2016 Jessica Cator, having: ** Charles Victor Swinton Campbell (born 2020); * Hon. Nicholas Robin Campbell (born 1986), married 2022 Kelly Frye. His wife, the Lady Colgrain, serves as

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since 2020.

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Family

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