Background
He was the eldest son of Sir Guy Colin Campbell, 4th Baronet and his first wife Mary Arabella Swinnerton Kemeys-Tynte, daughter of Halswell Milborne Kemeys-Tynte. In 1960, he succeeded his father as baronet.
He was the eldest son of Sir Guy Colin Campbell, 4th Baronet and his first wife Mary Arabella Swinnerton Kemeys-Tynte, daughter of Halswell Milborne Kemeys-Tynte. In 1960, he succeeded his father as baronet.
Campbell was educated at Saint Aubyns Preparatory School, Rottingdean, Eton College and the University of Street Andrews.
Sir Guy"s branch of the Campbell baronets, of Street Cross Mede, were created in 1815 with Sir Guy Campbell, 1st Baronet. Campbell was commissioned into the King"s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in 1932. With the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, he was attached to the Camel Corps of the Sudan Defence Force, commanding the 2nd and 7th Nuba Battalions.
A year later he was promoted to captain and in 1945, he acted as brigadier in the Force"s headquarter.
In 1951, he was transferred to the King"s Royal Rifle Corps. He was appointed to command the Kenya Regiment at the beginning of the Mau Mau Uprising in 1952.
Campbell was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in 1954. After another two years he was appointed head of the military mission in Libya until 1960.
He was put on the reserve list in August and was granted an honorary colonelship.
Five years later, having reached the age limit, he retired. They had two sons: Lachlan Philip Kemeys Campbell, an artist and illustrator (Eton Colours, When lieutenant Happened In Scotland, and When lieutenant Happened In Britain), born in 1958, who has three children, Archie, Georgia and Ivo. And Rory Charles Fitzgerald Campbell, an opera singer and actor who owns the entertainment company Encore Management Limited., born in 1961, who has a daughter, Olivia.