Mrs J. Gordon Campbell
26 October 1860

Volume 2, page 57, sitting number 1528.

This is possibly the wife of Captain John Gordon Campbell of the 42nd (The Highland) Regiment of Foot, who died at Peebles on 30 November 1865. However, his obituary in The Sportsman (5 December 1865) does not mention a widow.

'We have to record the death of John Gordon Campbell, late Captain in the 42nd Royal Highlanders, which took place at his residence, Peebleshire, on Thursday last. The deceased was son of the late Mungo Campbell, Esq., a partner of the extensive house of Campbell and Co., West India merchants. After spending some years in his father's counting-house, he entered Her Majesty's 42nd Regiment, and went through the whole of the Crimean campaign. In that dismal swamp he contracted a malady, of which he was never free till the day of his decease. So completely shattered was his health, that soon after the conclusion of the war he sold his commission, and retired into private life. He was a keen angler, and an enthusiastic admirer of curling and bowling. In recognition of this, he was lately elected President of the Peebles Bowling Club, and occupied the chair at the last annual meeting.'

Within a plausible timeframe, there was also a James Gordon Campbell active in the Bengal Civil Service. He died in Paris, aged 53, in 1859. According to a brief announcement of his death he was the 'son of the late Edward Campbell, Esq., and nephew to the late Sir Robert Campbell, Bart. (The Globe, 24 November 1859).