Walter Campbell of Islay
(1840-1919)

Volume 1, page 203, sitting number 1006.

Born on 6 June 1840, Walter Douglas Somerset Campbell was the younger son of Walter Frederick Campbell of Islay, by his second wife, Katherine Isabella née Cole. He appears on the 1861 census, living with his widowed mother and his two sisters at Niddry Lodge, Kensington. The head of the household is his half-brother, the Gaelic scholar John Francis Campbell. At the time of the census, Walter Campbell was a 20-year-old ensign.

Sir Walter Douglas Somerset Campbell, KCVO, died on 17 April 1919 and was buried in London's Brompton Cemetery following a funeral service in the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace. According to his short obituary in The Times (19 April 1919): 'Sir Walter Douglas Somerset Campbell, KCVO, whose death is announced in his 79th year, was the son of the late Walter Frederick Campbell, of Islay, and had been Groom-in-Waiting to the King since 1901. Previously he had held the same office to Queen Victoria from 1880. Sir Walter Campbell was educated at Charterhouse, and received his KCVO in 1910.'

[From an album compiled by either the Campbells of Ardpatrick or by the Campbells of Islay themselves.]