Memorial for Memorial for Sir Neil Campbell, Kilmartin Parish Church, Argyll and Bute, Scotland

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Memorial for Sir Neil Campbell (1776-1835)

1835

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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Photograph by George P. Landow.

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Text on memorial plaque

To the Memory of Sir NEIL CAMPBELL, C.B. Colonel of the Royal African Corps, [Governor?] Commander in chief of Sierra Leone and its dependencies. Son of NEIL CAMPBELL, Esq, of DUNTROON and OIB, Born 1st May, 1776. Who after arduous & distinguished services in the West Indies, Spain, Portugal, Germany, the Netherlands, & France, at length fell a sacrifice to the baneful climate of Africa,on 14th May, 1827.

Beloved, admired, and lamented” by all who knew him" This tablet is erected” by his sole surviving brother, Patrick Campbell Lieu^t Col. Royal Artillery, His Majesty’s Consul General in Egypt, 1st May, 1835. As the last testimony of affection & regret.

1809 Martinique, the Saintes.
1810 Guadaloupe.
1811 Fuentes d’onor, Almeida.
1812 Cuidad Rodrigo, Badajos, Salamanaca, Burgos.
1813 Lutzen, Bautzen, Dantzic.
1815 Waterloo, Cambray.

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