Lord Colin Campbell
{{Short description|Scottish politician (1853–1895)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Lord Colin Campbell
| image = Colin Campbell00.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Lord Colin Campbell (1890)
| office1 = Member of Parliament for Argyllshire
| term1 = 1878-1885
| party = Liberal Party
| birth_date = {{birth date|1853|03|09|df=yes}}
| birth_place= England
| death_date = {{death date and age|1896|06|18|1853|03|09|df=yes}}
| death_place= Bombay, India
| education = St Andrews University
Trinity College, Cambridge
| father = George Campbell
| mother = Elizabeth Leveson-Gower
| relatives = John Campbell (brother)
Victoria Campbell (sister)
Frances Balfour (sister)
George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (grandfather)
John Campbell (grandfather)
| spouse = {{marriage|Gertrude Blood|1881}}
| module =
{{Infobox military person
| embed = yes
| branch = British Army
| branch_label = Branch
| rank = Lieutenant
| unit = 2nd Argyll Rifle Volunteers
}}}}
Lord Colin Campbell (9 March 1853 – 18 June 1895) was a Scottish Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1878 to 1885.
Biography
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.[http://www.thepeerage.com/ the Peerage.com] He was educated at Eton College, St Andrews University and Trinity College, Cambridge. He entered Middle Temple in 1875 and was a lieutenant in the 2nd Argyll Rifle Volunteers.[https://archive.org/stream/debrettshouseo1881londuoft#page/38/mode/2up Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1881] He entered Parliament for Argyllshire in 1878, a seat he held until 1885.{{Rayment-hc|a|2|date=March 2012}} A number of Campbell's constituents became disenchanted with him, adopting a parody of a traditional song about the Campbell family: "But their aim, and their claim, which are one and the same,/Are founded in falsehoods of sand, you know./The Campbells are cunning, oho, oho .."Quoted in Lucinda Hawksley (2013) The Mystery of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria's Rebellious Daughter One consequence of Campbell's unpopularity was that his brother, the Marquess of Lorne, Queen Victoria's son-in-law, who had previously been MP for Argyllshire and was seeking to return to politics after a spell as Governor-General of Canada, felt compelled to find a seat outside Scotland. He stood as Liberal candidate for Hampstead in 1885, but lost.Hawksley, op. cit.
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Campbell married Gertrude Elizabeth Blood (1857–1911), daughter of Irish landowner Edmund Maghlin Blood, in 1881. They had no children and were separated in 1884, partially because of Gertrude Blood's firm belief that Campbell had infected her with syphilis.{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/4813841/Inside-story-79-Cadogan-Place.html|title=Inside story: 79 Cadogan Place|last=Wilkes|first=Roger|website=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=2016-05-15}} An acrimonious legal battle followed 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 men. The couple remained married until Lord Colin's death in Bombay in 1895 from syphilis.{{cite news |title=Inside story: 79 Cadogan Place |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/4813841/Inside-story-79-Cadogan-Place.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100519163207/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/4813841/Inside-story-79-Cadogan-Place.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 May 2010 |date=7 April 2001 |author=Roger Wilkes |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph}}[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1911/11/03/104841571.pdf New York Times]
Gertrude Elizabeth became a well-known socialite, writer and wit. She died in November 1911.[http://www.dataxinfo.com/ladycampbell/index.htm Biography of Lady Colin Campbell] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070508213155/http://www.dataxinfo.com/ladycampbell/index.htm |date=8 May 2007 }}