Years of service 1867–1908 Rank Major general Service/branch British Army | Died March 13, 1918 Name Barrington 3rd Allegiance United Kingdom | |
Awards Order of the Bath, Royal Victorian Order | ||
Major General Barrington Bulkeley Campbell, 3rd Baron Blythswood, (18 February 1845 – 13 March 1918) was a British Army officer.
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Military career
Born the son of Archibald Campbell, 17th Laird of Mains, Barrington Campbell became a lieutenant in the Lanarkshire Yeomanry Cavalry on 15 October 1867. He served with the 1st Battalion Scots Guards during the Anglo-Egyptian War in Egypt in 1882, and was present in the engagement at El Magyar and Tel-el-Mahuta, and the Battle of Tell El Kebir (13 September 1882). He was awarded the Royal Humane Society Medal in 1889 for saving a life. He was promoted to Major-General in 1898 and served in South Africa from 1900 till 1902, during the Second Boer War, where he was in command of an Infantry brigade. For his service in the war he was twice mentioned in despatches (including by Lord Kitchener dated 23 June 1902), and appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB).
Following his return to the United Kingdom, he served as Lieutenant-Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Guernsey from 1903 to 1908.
In 1908, his name was legally changed to Barrington Bulkeley Douglas-Campbell, but on 30 September 1916 he reverted to Barrington Bulkeley Campbell when he succeeded to the title of 3rd Baron Blythswood, in the County of Renfrewshire, on the death of his brother, Reverend Sholto Campbell, 2nd Baron Blythswood. He inherited Blythswood in the County of Renfrewshire at that time.
He was succeeded by his son, Brig.-Maj. Archibald Campbell who became 4th Baron Blythswood and who had also, in 1916, legally changed his name to Douglas-Campbell.
Honours
Douglas-Campbell was appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) on 2 May 1902.