Colin Campbell
1853–95
Politician and barrister. Fifth son of George Douglas Campbell, eighth duke of Argyll. Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. MP for Argyllshire, 1878–85. Called to the bar, 1886. Married Gertrude Elizabeth Blood in 1881; following judicial separation in 1883, both parties filed for divorce (Campbell accused his wife of adultery, she accused him of cruelty and knowingly infecting her with syphilis), but it was not granted. Practised as a barrister in Bombay, 1888–95. Died in Bombay as a result of venereal disease.
Sources
Alum. Cantab.
ODNB s.v. Campbell, Gertrude Elizabeth
Bibliography
Alum. Cantab.: Alumni Cantabrigienses. A biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900. Compiled by John Venn and J. A. Venn. 10 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1922–54.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
