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DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. 79 Campbell, family name of the Earl of Cawdor. ,, surname of the Bishop of Bangor. CAMPBELL AND STRATHEDEN, BARON. (CAMPBELL.) WILLIAM FREDERICK CAMPBELL, 2nd Baron. Born Oct. 15th, 1824; succeeded his mother, as Baron Stratheden in I860, and his father as Baron Campbell in 1861; educated at Eton, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, (M.A. 18-16) ; was M.P. for Cambridge, borough, 1847 52, and for Harwich, 185960 has been Major 43rd Middlesex Rifles since 1862. Brothers living, Hallyburton George, heir pre- sumptive to both baronies, b. 1829; educated at Eton, and at Trinity College, Cambridge ; Boldly and plainly. was in the Civil Service of the East India Com- pany, 184955; appointed Lieut, in the Rox- burghshire Rifle Volunteers, 1859, Major in the 40th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, 186l, and Lieut. -Col. of that Regiment, 1866; is a Magistrate for Galway : m. 1S65, Louisa Mary, eldest daughter of Alexander James Beresford Beresford-Hope, Esq. M.P., and has with other issue, a son, b. 1866. Residence, 6 1, Ennismore Gardens. Club, Brooks's. Dudley, b. 1833. Sisters living, Louise Madeline, b. 1823, m. 1850, (White) .Mary Scarlett, b. 1827, 1869, (Hardcastle). Cecilia, b. 1835, m. 1862, (Johnson). Edina, i. 1837, * 1859, (Duck- worth) . Creations, Baron Stratheden, 1836,-^Baron Campbell, 1841, both in the peerage of Great Britain. arms, Gyronny of eight, or and sable, within a bordure engrailed quarterly, or and azure, charged with eight buckles counterchanged. Crest, A boar's head erased, gyronny of eight, or and sable. Supporters, On either side a lion guardant, gules, that on the dexter gorged with a collar, or, pendent therefrom an escutcheon, azure, charged with a saltire, argent ; and that on the sinister gorged with a wreath of shamrocks, proper, there- from an escutchepn cheeky, or and gules. Seat, Hartrigge House, Roxburghshire. Town Residence, , Bruton-street, W. Clubs, Reform, Brooks's, St. James's. CAMPBELL, Baron, His lordship's predecessor was his father, John, 1st Baron Campbell, (son of the Rev. Dr. George Campbell, of Cupar, N.B.) He was b. Sept. 15, 1779; was educated at St. Andrew's University; was called to the Bar at Lincoln's I nil, 1806, and became a King's Counsel in 1827 ; was returned to Parliament for Stafford, 1830, and for Dudley two years later; appointed in 1832 Solicitor- General, and in 1834, ^Attorney-General ; represented Edinburgh in three successive Parliaments; became At- torney- General to William IV. in 1835, and to Her present Majesty on her accession ; appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland in 1841, and was raised to the peerage at the same time; in 1846, became Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ; was Lord Chief Justice of England, 185059, and Lord High Chancellor of the United Kingdom, 185961 : m. Sept. 8, 1821, the Hon. Mary Elizabeth Scarlett, daughter of the 1st Baron Abinger, who was created Baroness Stratheden in her own right 1836, (she d. I860); and d. June 23, 1861, having 'had issue three sons and four daughters. Campden, Viscount, son of the Earl of Gainsborough, (see Gainsborough.)