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"A view of Okehampton Castle and town taken in the park", 1772 drawing by Francis Towne (1739–1816), Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA Remains of Okehampton Castle today. The feudal barony of Okehampton was a very large feudal barony, the largest mediaeval fiefdom in the county of Devon, England, [1] whose caput was Okehampton ...
Elspeth Mary Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Pittenweem (5 January 1940 – 5 June 2023) was a British baroness and socialite. She was married to the Liberal Democrat politician Menzies Campbell from 1970 until her death.
Baroness Campbell may refer to: Elspeth Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Pittenweem (born 1940), wife of Menzies Campbell; Sue Campbell, Baroness Campbell of ...
Sir James Campbell was the son of Sir Duncan Campbell, 4th Baronet (died c. 1700) and Lady Henrietta Lindsay, daughter of Alexander Lindsay, 1st Earl of Balcarres. [2] His grandmother Lady Anna Mackenzie, governess to William III, married his grandfather Lord Balneil and then remarried Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll. [3]
Jane Addison (née Campbell, later Pocklington; 1771 – 27 February 1851) was the first woman in the United Kingdom to petition a divorce (with the ability to remarry) against her husband through an Act of Parliament and did so with success.
Ethel Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll (née Whigham, formerly Sweeny; 1 December 1912 – 25 July 1993) was a Scottish heiress, socialite, and aristocrat who was most famous for her 1951 marriage and much-publicised 1963 divorce from her second husband, Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll.
Arms of the Baroness Greenwich. Caroline Townshend, 1st Baroness Greenwich (née Campbell, 17 November 1717 – 11 January 1794) was a British peeress, the daughter and eldest child [1] of John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, and his wife, the former Jane Warburton. [2] [3] She was a sister of the diarist Lady Mary Coke.
The title was created on 25 October 1816 (as Countess de Grey) for Amabell Hume-Campbell, Dowager Lady Polwarth and suo jure 5th Baroness Lucas, with remainder to the heirs male of her body, and in default of such issue to her sister Mary Jemima Robinson, Dowager Baroness Grantham, and the heirs male of her body. [1]