- Sir Edward Campbell, 1st Baronet
Sir Edward Taswell Campbell, 1st Baronet JP MP (
April 9 ,1879 –Bromley ,Kent ,July 17 ,1945 ) was a Conservative Party politician in theUnited Kingdom .Ancestry
He was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Campbell (
June 15 ,1843 – Airds,Sydenham Hill ,Surrey ,September 13 ,1926 ) and wife (m.Christ Church ,Paddington ,January 28 ,1869 ) Emilie GuillamineMaclaine (c. 1847 – Airds,Sydenham Hill ,Surrey ,July 21 ,1928 ); paternal grandson ofSir John Campbell, 7th Baronet and wife Hannah ElizabethMacleod ; maternal grandson of Donald Maclaine, 20th of Lochbuie (October 26 ,1816 –October 12 ,1863 ) and wife (m.October 23 ,1844 ) Emilie GuillamineVincent (–November 8 ,1882 ); and great-grandson ofLieutenant Murdoch Maclaine, 19th of Lochbuie (August 1 ,1791 –August 20 ,1844 ) and wife (m.March 7 ,1813 ) ChristinaMaclean and of Charles AnthonyVincent and wife.Career
Educated at
Dulwich College , prior to enteringpolitics , he served as a Vice-Consul inJava between 1914 and 1920. Sir Edward Campbell was created aKnight Bachelor in 1933 and the 1stBaronet Campbell ofAirds Bay ,Argyll , in theBaronetage of the United Kingdom onJuly 3 1939 . He also served as aKent Justice of the Peace .He was elected as
Member of Parliament (MP) for Camberwell North West in 1924 but was defeated in 1929. He returned to the House of Commons in aby-election in 1930 as member for Bromley and sat until his death, which occurred during the 1945 general election. Polling took place onJuly 5 ,1945 . Campbell died 12 days later, but nine days before the declaration of the result. He was declared posthumously elected on26 July 1945 , provoking a by-election in his Bromley constituency. That contest was won byHarold Macmillan .In the House of Commons Campbell served as
Parliamentary Private Secretary to SirKingsley Wood on various occasions between 1931 and 1943, and later was PPS toHenry Willink as Minister of Health.Marriage and children
He married on
January 28 ,1904 Edith Jane Warren (Surabaya ,Java ,Dutch East Indies ,December 7 1880 –Stonycrest ,Hindhead ,Surrey ,October 26 1951 ), daughter of Arthur John Warren, BritishVice Consul inSurabaya , (baptised ,St Pancras Old Church ,London ,July 22 ,1847 –Epsom ,Surrey ,November 17 ,1930 ) and wife Sophia Jane Wilson (St Pancras,London ,May 17 ,1856 –Burghdown ,Epsom ,Surrey ,January 26 ,1920 ), and had issue, including:
* Frances Henriette Campbell (Semarang ,Java ,Dutch East Indies ,November 30 1904 – ?), married onDecember 16 1930 toRear Admiral KeithMcNeill Walter (later Campbell-Walter) (Hazaribagh ,August 31 1904 –April 24 1976 ), son of Alexander McNeill Walter, ofHazaribagh ,India ,Zamindari Manager (Calcutta ,May 12 1875 –Hazaribagh ,February 12 1936 ), and wife Florence Ruth GisellaDowning (Purnesh ,Bengal ,October 5 1879 –Holloway Sanitorium ,Egham ,Surrey ,April 8 ,1976 ), whose daughter was:
** Fiona Frances Elaine Campbell-Walter (b.Takapuna , Prov. Auckland,June 25 1932 ),New Zealand -born Britishfashion model , married as his third wife atLugano -Castagnola,17 September ,1956 ,Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza ; their children were Francesca Anne Dolores (b.Lausanne ,June 7 1958 and now married atMariazell ,January 31 1993 toKarl Habsburg-Lothringen , heir to the defunct Austrian Imperial Throne) and Lorne (b.Lugano ,June 15 1963 ), who converted toIslam and is unmarried and without issue; he is the producer and director of "Labyrinth" (2003) and theexecutive producer of "The Garden of Eden" (2008); Fiona and Hans Heinrich divorced onJanuary 20 ,1965 , and she went on to have a well-publicized relationship with Greek shipping heirAlexander Onassis , the only son ofAristotle Onassis
* Sir Charles Duncan Macnair Campbell, 2nd Baronet (September 12 ,1906 –January 16 ,1954 ) (title extinct with his death)References
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* 'Who's Who of British MPs: Volume IV, 1945-1979' by Michael Stenton and Stephen Lees (Harvester, Brighton, 1979) ISBN 0-85527-335-6
* [http://worldroots.com/~brigitte/famous/f/francescathyssenanc1958.htm Ancestors of Baroness Francesca Anne Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kaszon]
* [http://worldroots.com/~brigitte/famous/e/eleonoreaustriaanc1994.htm Ancestors of Archduchess Eleonore of Austria]
* [http://worldroots.com/~brigitte/famous/f/ferdinandaustriaanc1997.htm Ancestors of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria]
* [http://worldroots.com/~brigitte/famous/g/gloriaaustriaanc1999.htm Ancestors of Archduchess Gloria of Austria]
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