Niall Campbell, 10th Duke of Argyll

Campbell was the son of Captain Lord Archibald Campbell, second son of George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, and his wife Janey Sevilla Callander of Craigforth and Ardkinglas, daughter of James Henry Callander and Jane Erskine.{{cite book|last=Fox-Davies|first=Arthur Charles|title=Armorial Families|location=London|publisher=Hurst & Blackett|volume=I|date=1929}} His uncle was Lord Colin Campbell and his aunt by marriage was Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll. He was educated at St George's School, Ascot and went then to Charterhouse School in Surrey.{{cn|date=February 2025}}

Campbell studied at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1896. He was admitted to the Middle Temple on 1 November 1894Sturgess, H.A.C. (1949). Register of Admissions to the Middle Temple. Butterworth & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.: Temple Bar. Vol.2, p.701. and withdrew without being Called to the Bar in 1917. In 1914, he succeeded his uncle John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll in his various hereditary titles and offices.{{cite book|title=Whitaker's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companioage|publisher=J. Whitaker & Sons|date=1923|page=124}}

Following his inheritance, Campbell became Honorary Colonel of the 8th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders until his retirement in 1929.{{cite book|last=Burke|first=John|editor=Peter de Vere Beauclerk-Dewar|title=Burke's Landed Gentry of Great Britain|isbn=0-9711966-0-5|date=2001|page=596}} He was additionally Honorary Colonel of the 15th (Canadian) Argyll Light Infantry.{{cite book|title=Who is Who 1935|publisher=Adam & Charles Black Ltd.|location=London|date=1935|page=34}} Having been previously a Deputy Lieutenant from 1914,{{London Gazette|issue=28949|page=8534|date=23 October 1914 }} He funded the creation of the Inveraray Bell Tower, in memory of the Campbell Clan who died in the First World War.

Campbell was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Argyllshire in 1923, an office he held until his death in 1949.{{cite web|url=http://www.history.ac.uk/resources/office/lieutenants-scot#S3|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121223003331/http://www.history.ac.uk/resources/office/lieutenants-scot#S3|url-status=dead|title=Institute of Historical Research - Lieutenants and Lord-Lieutenants of Counties (Scotland) from 1794|accessdate=9 August 2009|archive-date=23 December 2012}} His seat was Inveraray Castle, Argyll and he was interred at Kilmun Parish Church.{{cite web|url=http://www.argyllmausoleum.org|title=Argyll Mausoleum web-site|accessdate=30 September 2013}}

Referred to as "Scotland's most picturesque Duke", Campbell hated telephones and motor cars and would indulge in eccentric behaviour, including greeting tourists with recitals from Italian operas.{{cite news | title = Death of Scotland's most picturesque Duke | pages = 5 | newspaper = The Advertiser | location = Adelaide | date = 21 August 1949 }} He spent his final years in what was called "monastic seclusion".

Fearing that the eccentricity from his maternal relationship could be inherited, he never married and died childless in 1949.{{cite book|last=Campbell|first=Alastair|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|volume=III|isbn=0-7486-1790-6|title=History of Clan Campbell: From the Restoration to the Present Day|date=2004|page=300}}

He was succeeded as duke by his first cousin, once removed, Ian Campbell, a great-grandson of the 8th Duke (via his third son).{{cn|date=February 2025}}

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|4= 4. George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll

|5= 5. Lady Elizabeth Sutherland-Leveson-Gower

|6= 6. James Callander

|7= 7. Hon. Jane Erskine

|8= 8. John Campbell, 7th Duke of Argyll

|9= 9. Joan Glassel

|10= 10. George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland

|11= 11. Lady Harriet Howard

|12= 12. George Callander

|13= 13. Elizabeth Erskine

|14= 14. David Erskine, 2nd Baron Erskine

|15= 15. Frances Cadwalader

|16= 16. John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll

|17= 17. Elizabeth Gunning, 1st Baroness Hamilton of Hameldon

|18= 18. John Glassel

|19= 19. Helen Buchan

|20= 20. George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland

|21= 21. Elizabeth Sutherland, 19th Countess of Sutherland

|22= 22. George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle

|23= 23. Lady Georgiana Cavendish

|24= 24. James Callander

|25= 25. Catherine Forbes

|26= 26. Hon. Henry Erskine

|27= 27. Christian Fullerton

|28= 28. Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

|29= 29. Frances Moore

|30= 30. John Cadwalader

|31= 31. Williamina Bond

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• [http://genealogics.org/pedigree.php?personID=I00081122&tree=LEO Niall Campbell, 10th Duke of Argyll]
• [http://www.geni.com/people/Niall-Diarmid-Campbell-10th-Duke-of-Argyll/6000000003403262370 Pedigree], geni.com; accessed 21 June 2017.

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