Frederick william campbell biography for kids
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Lord Frederick Campbell
British politician
Lord Frederick Campbell MP PC FRS (20 June – 8 June ) was a British politician. He was Lord Clerk lista of Scotland, –; Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow Burghs (–) and for Argyllshire (–).
Biography
[edit]Frederick Campbell was the third son of John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, and his wife, Mary, daughter of John Bellenden, 2nd Lord Bellenden. Lord Frederick was educated at Westminster School () and Christ Church, Oxford () before entering mittpunkt Temple () and being called to the Bar in [1]
Although his father had intended him for the parliamentary seat of Ayr Burghs, he instead succeeded his brother Lord Lorne to the seat of Glasgow Burghs in [1]
In , being very intimate with Mr. Grenville, Lord Frederick was active in the arrangements for transferring the prerogatives and rights of the Duke of Atholl in the Isle of Man (then a nest of smugglers), to the Crown, and in fixing the compen
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William Campbell was born in in Caithness, Scotland. As a young man he studied law. His instructor passed away, and Sir William volunteered for the 76th Foot, a Highland regiment in the British Army. He was subsequently sent to America to fight in the Revolutionary War. He was part of the British Force that surrendered to the Americans at the siege of Yorktown, Virginia in At the end of the war, he was released and sailed with the United Empire Loyalists to Nova Scotia, where he resumed his legal studies to supplement his income. While there he met and married Hannah Hadley, the daughter of a successful local fisherman. Sir William rose to become the Attorney General of Cape Breton Island. In , he was commissioned as a judge by the British crown and sent to the town of York in Upper Canada, which had a population of prior to the War of
He had his house built in on a plot of land located at 54 Duke Street at the top of Frederick Street. In , William became the 6th Chief Justice o
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Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Frederick William Campbell
In memory of:
Captain Frederick William Campbell
June 19,
Military Service
Age:
46
Force:
Army
Unit:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
1st Battalion
An extract from the London Gazette, No. , dated August 20, , records the following:
For most conspicuous bravery on 15th June, , during the action at Givenchy. Lt. Campbell took two machine-guns over the parapet, arrived at the German first line with one gun, and maintained his position there, beneath very heavy rifle, machine-gun and bomb fire, notwithstanding the fact that almost the whole of his detachment had then been killed or wounded. When our supply of bombs had become exhausted, this officer advanced his gun still further to an exposed position, and, by firing about 1, rounds, succeeded in holding back the enemy's counter-attack. This very gallant officer was subsequently wounded, and has since died. Sou