Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy

Patrick Gordon Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy (6 June 1913 – 10 November 1980), better known simply as Patrick Campbell, was a Irish journalist, humorist and television personality.

He was born in Dublin, the first son of Charles Campbell, 2nd Baron Glenavy and Beatrice Lady Glenavy. Campbell was educated at Rossall School and then Pembroke College, Oxford but left Oxford without completing his degree. He was taken on to the Irish Times by Robert Smyllie and reported on "Courts Day by Day". During the Second World War, he served as a Chief Petty Officer in the Irish Marine Service. After the war he re-joined the "Irish Times" (using the pseudonym, Quidnunc), and given charge of the column "Irishman's Diary". He had a weekly column for the Irish edition of the "Sunday Dispatch" before working on the "Sunday Dispatch" in London from 1947-1949. He assistant edited Lilliput from 1947-1953. His writings also appeared in the "The Sunday Times". His books, mostly humorous, included "Life in Thin Slices" (1954), "How to Become a Scratch Golfer" (1963) and an autobiography "The p-p-Penguin Patrick Campbell" (1950).

Campbell was married three times, first in 1941 to Sylvia Willoughby whom he divorced in 1947. Then to Chery Louise Munro in 1947 from whom he was divorced in 1966 and lastly to Vivienne Orme whom he married in 1966 and with whom he had one daughter, Margaret Brigid, two granddaughters, Abigail and Charlotte and one grandson, Celli.

Lord Glenavy, who suffered from a serious speech impediment, nevertheless delighted television audiences with his wit, notably as a regular team captain on the long-running show "Call My Bluff", opposite his longtime friend, Frank Muir.

He retired to the South of France and died in Cannes on 10 November 1980.

References

* [http://www.pgil-eirdata.org/html/pgil_datasets/authors/c/Campbell,Patrick/life.htm Biographical Record of Author from Princess Grace Irish Library, Monaco]

Persondata
NAME= Campbell, Patrick Gordon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Baron Glenavy
SHORT DESCRIPTION= British journalist, humorist and television personality
DATE OF BIRTH= 6 June 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH= Dublin
DATE OF DEATH= 9 November 1980
PLACE OF DEATH= Cannes