Walter Campbell of Shawfield

Walter Campbell of Shawfield (1741 – 19 October 1816) as a Scottish landowner, advocate and Rector of Glasgow University.

He was the grandson of Daniel Campbell MP.

He qualified as an advocate in 1763 and was Sheriff-Depute of Kincardineshire from 1767 to 1777.[1] He was Rector of the University of Glasgow from 1789 to 1791.[2] He was also the Laird of Islay, Scotland.[2]

His son John Campbell (1770–1809) was an army officer and a Member of Parliament. John's son Walter Frederick Campbell inherited Islay in 1816 on his grandfather's death.[3] His daughter Katherine married Sir Charles Jenkinson, 10th Baronet, a cousin of Lord Liverpool, the Prime Minister in 1812-27.

References

  1. ↑ Milne, Hugh. Boswell's Edinburgh Journals: 1767-1786.
  2. 1 2 "Biography of Walter Campbell of Shawfield". University of Glasgow. Retrieved 15 May 2008.
  3. ↑ Burke, Bernard (1852). A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland for 1852. London: Colburn and Company. p. 179. Retrieved 5 May 2015.



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