Background
Campbell was the fifth son of George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, and his wife Lady Elizabeth Georgiana, daughter of George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland.
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Colin Campbell
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He was educated at Eton College, Street Andrews University and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Career
He entered Middle Temple in 1875 and was a lieutenant in the 2nd Argyll Rifle Volunteers. He entered Parliament for Argyllshire in 1878, a seat he held until 1885. He stood as Liberal candidate for Hampstead in 1885, but lost.
Campbell died in Bombay at the age of 42.
Campbell married Gertrude Elizabeth Blood (born 1857), daughter of Irish landowner Edmund Maghlin Blood, in 1881. They had no children and were separated in 1884 with an acrimonious legal battle in 1886, resulting in Gertrude"s being denied a divorce.
The notorious trial involved accusations of adultery from both sides, and visits by the jury to the Campbell"s London home at 79 Cadogan Place to verify testimony about what the butler saw through a keyhole of Lady Colin Campbell"s encounters with other mentor Gertrude Elizabeth became a well-known socialite, writer and wit.
She died in November 1911.
Membership
21st United Kingdom Parliament. 22nd United Kingdom Parliament.
