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Angus Diarmid Ian Campbell-Gray was born on 3 July 1931 in Kilconquhar, Fife, Scotland. His father, Major Lindsay Campbell-Gray, Master of Gray (1894-1945), was a World War I veteran and later trainer of steeplechasers. His mother was Doreen McClymont Tubbs.
His father died when he was 13 and his mother when he was 17.
He was educated at Eton College, a private boarding school in Eton near Windsor.
He started his career at Mather & Crowther, an advertising firm, where he designed the label on Himachal Pradesh Sauce bottles. He moved to Canada in 1956, where he worked for the Bell Telephone Corporation. Later, he became the owner of the Taynuilt Hotel in Argyll, Scotland.
He also owned a petrol station.
He inherited his title from his late paternal grandmother, Ethel Gray-Campbell, 21st Lady Gray, in 1946. As a result, he served as a hereditary peer in the House of Lords from 1946 to 1999.
In 1977, he suggested an amendment to what came to be known as the Scotland Acting 1978 a year later. Several decades later, he argued that the bill which led to the House of Lords Acting 1999 ran afoul of the Acting of Union, which let Scottish peers sit in the House of Lords.
The Committee for Privileges looked into his objection before the bill was passed.
He was interviewed in The Lord"s Tale, a television documentary directed by Molly Dineen about hereditary peers. He was involved with the Oban Games, the local Highland games in Oban. Indeed, he served as a steward of the Argyllshire Gathering, whose President is the Duke of Argyll.
He also attended the Oban Balliol
A keen foxhunter, he took part in the West Waterford Hunt in County Waterford, Ireland. He died on 29 April 2003.
He was seventy-one years old.
