Memorial for Neil Campbell (1736-1799) and James Campbell (d.1799), Kilmartin Parish Church, Argyll and Bute, Scotland

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Memorial for Neil Campbell (1736-1799) and James Campbell (d.1799)

Marble

Kilmartin Parish Church

Argyll and Bute, Scotland

The three memorials for members of the Campbell family contain an unusual amount of biographical information and resemble obituaries. See below for the complete text.

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Text on memorial plaque

Sacred to the Memory of NEIL CAMPBEL Esquire of DUNTROON and OIB, born in 1735. He served as Captain at the taking of the Havannah in 1762, and afterwards in the Western Fencibles during the American War: In 1786 he went to the East Indies, hoping” by this honourable exertion to retrieve his paternal inheritance from debt incurred” by the failure of the Ayr bank, and” by liberal pecuniary engagements for others. But it pleased the ALMIGHTY to call him from this world in 1794, at Madras, where he held the appointment of High Sheriff, Commissary of Musters to the King’s army and A. D. Camp to the Nabob of Arcot.

Also, to the Memory of his eldest Son, James, born 1773. He served in the East Indies at the siege of Ponchberry in 1793, at the capture of the Cape of Good Hope in 1795, and in Holland in 1799 where he fell in battle upon the 2^nd of Oct^r. near Bergen, leading on the Grenadier Com^y of the 79^th Highland Reg^t in which he was Captain.

“The One was distinguished for his upright principles and the sacrifices which he made to serve his family: the Other for his heroic ardour. And tho’ their ashes repose in far distant regions, the virtue of their lives encourage an humble hope that their Souls are now united in Heaven.”

This tribute of filial and fraternal affection to the memory of the proprietors of the ancient estate of DUNTROON, as well as of regrd to the [attached?] connections of the Family, is erected, in the year 1819,” by Colonel Sir Neil Campbell, C.B., and Lieu^t Colonel Patrick Cambell of the R. British Artillery,

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