Major-General Sir Guy Campbell, 1st Baronet (22 January 1786 – 26 January 1849), was a
British Army
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officer. His branch of the
Campbell baronets
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is referred to as St Cross Mede.
Early life
Campbell was born on 22 January 1786. He was the eldest son of Lieutenant-General
Colin Campbell and his wife Mary Johnson.
Among his siblings were William Johnson Campbell (who married Anna Maria Vincent, a daughter of
Sir Francis Vincent, 8th Baronet),
Rev. Colin Alexander Campbell (who married Hon. Beatrice Charlotte Byng, daughter of the
5th Viscount Torrington),
and Anne Carolina Julia Campbell (first wife of
George Cholmondeley, 2nd Marquess of Cholmondeley).
His maternal grandparents were
Guy Johnson and Mary "Polly" Johnson (the daughter of
Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet
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As a young man, Johnson moved to t ...
). His paternal grandparents were John Campbell, First Cashier of the
Royal Bank of Scotland
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, and Anne Carolina Campbell (a daughter of
landowner James Campbell of Tofts).
His paternal grandfather was an illegitimate son of the Hon. Colin Campbell of Ardmaddie, a son of
John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland
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by his second marriage to the former Mary Sinclair, Countess of Caithness ( Lady Mary Campbell), the widow of
George Sinclair, 6th Earl of Caithness who was a daughter of
Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll
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).
Career
Campbell entered the army as an
ensign
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in the
6th Regiment of Foot in 1795, of which his father was then
lieutenant-colonel, and was promoted
lieutenant
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on 4 April 1796. He served in all the regiment's engagements under his father's command during the
Irish Rebellion of 1798
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. Campbell, with the rest of the regiment, went to
Canada
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in 1803, and he was promoted
captain
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on 14 September 1804. (By this time, his father had been promoted to major-general and held a command in Ireland).
Campbell again saw action with the 6th during the
Peninsular War
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, fighting at
Roliça and
Vimeiro, and taking part in the advance and retreat of
Sir John Moore. Promoted
major
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on 1 April 1813, Campbell and the 6th fought at
Vitoria
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(21 June 1813), and owing to the wounding of the colonel, took command of the regiment. During the subsequent campaigns, Campbell led the 6th during the
Battle of the Pyrenees
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, and was badly wounded while leading the regiment, on 2 August 1813, to the storming of the Heights of
Echalar, a feat which won the commendation of
Wellington
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for the regiment. Campbell was
breveted lieutenant-colonel on 26 August 1813 as a result.
After the war, he received a
gold medal
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for his conduct at the Battle of the Pyrenees and was awarded the
CB. He was created a baronet on 22 May 1815 in recognition of the services of his father, the remainder being to his father's heirs-male. He rejoined the 6th in 1815, and served as a staff officer at the
Battle of Waterloo
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, going on half-pay in 1816.
Campbell was appointed deputy
quartermaster-general in
Ireland
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in 1830, and was promoted
major-general in 1841, receiving command of the
Athlone
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district. On 24 October 1848, he was appointed colonel of the
3rd West India Regiment.
Personal life
On 17 January 1817, Sir Guy married Frances Elizabeth Burgoyne, daughter of Montagu Burgoyne. Before her death on 8 May 1818, they were the parents of one daughter:
* Frances Elizabeth Campbell (–1893), who married Col. Henry Boys Harvey in 1840.
On 21 November 1820, Sir Guy remarried to
Pamela FitzGerald (–1869), the eldest daughter of
Lord Edward FitzGerald
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(fifth son of the
Duke of Leinster
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) and
Pamela Syms. By her he had four sons, of whom one died in infancy, and six daughters, including:
* Madeline Caroline Frances Eden Campbell (d. 1920), who married Hon. Percy Scawen Wyndham, son of
George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield, in 1860.
* Pamela Louisa Campbell (d. 1859), who married Rev. Charles Stuart Stanford in 1841.
* Georgina Geneviève Louisa Campbell (d. 1899), who married Capt. Thomas Henry Preston in 1847.
* Lucy Sophia Julia Campbell (d. 1898), who married General Sir
Edward Selby Smyth in 1848.
* Julia Elizabeth Henrietta Campbell (d. 1910), who married Maj.-Gen. Fitzroy William Fremantle, son of Maj.-Gen.
John Fremantle, in 1862.
*
Sir Edward Fitzgerald Campbell, 2nd Baronet (1822–1882), a Colonel who married Georgiana Charlotte Theophila Metcalfe, daughter of
Sir Thomas Metcalfe, 4th Baronet
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, in 1853.
* John Campbell (b. ), who died as an infant.
* Guy Colin Campbell (1824–1853), a Lieutenant in the
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who died unmarried.
* Emily Campbell (–1924), who married Maj. Charles David Cunynghame Ellis, son of Lt.-Col. Hon.
Augustus Frederick Ellis (a son of the
1st Baron Seaford), in 1859.
* Frederick Augustus Campbell (1839–1916), a Captain who married Emma Mary Brabazon, daughter of Maj. Hugh Brabazon, in 1862.
* Mary Louisa Campbell (1849–1897), who married Maj. William Frederick Carleton in 1867.
[Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.'' ]Wilmington, Delaware
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: Burke's Peerage
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(Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 1, p. 661.
Sir Guy died in 1849 at
Dún Laoghaire
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after a long illness and is buried at
Collins Barracks, then known as the Royal Barracks, in
Dublin
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.
Descendants
Sir Guy's descendant,
Sir Guy Campbell, 5th Baronet, was baronet from 1960 until his death in 1993, and the current baronet, Lachlan Campbell, is his son.
Arms
References
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1786 births
1849 deaths
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People of the Battle of Waterloo
People of the Irish Rebellion of 1798
Recipients of the Army Gold Medal
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