Background
Campbell was born in Dublin, the first son of Charles Campbell, 2nd Baron Glenavy and Beatrice Lady Glenavy.
Campbell was born in Dublin, the first son of Charles Campbell, 2nd Baron Glenavy and Beatrice Lady Glenavy.
He was educated at Rossall School (which he loathed) and then Pembroke College, Oxford, but left Oxford without completing his degree.
He was taken on by The Irish Times by Robert Smyllie and reported on "Courts Day by Day". During the Second World War, he served as a Chief Petty Officer in the Irish Marine Service. After the war he re-joined The Irish Times (using the pseudonym Quidnunc), and given charge of the column "Irishman"s Diary".
He had a weekly column for the Irish edition of the Sunday Dispatch before working on the paper in London from 1947 to 1949.
He was assistant editor of Lilliput from 1947 to 1953. His writings also appeared in The Sunday Times.
Then to Chery Louise Munro in 1947. Muir noted that "When he was locked solid by a troublesome initial letter he would show his frustration by banging his knee and muttering "Come along! Come along!"".
Some of his funniest short stories described incidents involving his stammer.
Glenavy stood six feet five inches tall, and several of his funniest pieces dealt with the problems faced by a man of his build in merely finding shoes or clothes that fitted him. He also made regular appearances in That Was The Week That Was. He lived for many years in the South of France, and died in Cannes on 10 November 1980.