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514 CAMPBELL ANDREWS, CO. Fife.(^) In June 1846, on the return of the Whig party, he was made Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with a seat in the Cabinet, resigning both in Mar. 1850, when appointed Ch. Justice of the Queen's Bench. From 18 June 1859 till his death (2 years later) he was Lord Chancellor of Great Britain. () He m., 8 Sep. 1 821, at Abinger, Surrey, Mary Elizabeth, ist da. of James (Scarlett), ist Baron Abinger, by his 1st wife, Louise Henriette, da. of Peter Campbell, of Kilmorey, co. Argyll. She, who was b. 29 Apr. 1796, was cr. 22 Jan. 1836, BARONESS STRATHEDEN OF CUPAR, co. Fife. She ^.25 Mar. 1 860, at Strathe- den House, Knightsbridge, Midx. He d. there, very suddenly, from the bursting of a blood vessel, 23, being found dead in his chair 24 June 1861, having attended a Cabinet Council and entertained friends at dinner the previous day. He was bur. in the ruins of Jedburgh Abbey, aged 8o.(°) Will pr. 25 July 1861, under ;^ 120,000. II. 1861. I. William Frederick (Campbell) Baron Strathe- DEN OF Cupar [1836] and Baron Campbell of St. An- drews' [i 841], 1st s. and h.,/-. 15 Oct. 1824; j«c. his mother in the Barony of Stratheden, 25 Mar. 1 860, and his father, in the Barony of Campbell, 24 June 1861. See "Stratheden of Cupar," Barony of, cr. 1836. CAMPCASTELL i.e. "Alemoor and Campcastell" Barony [S.] (Scou), cr. 1660 with the Earldom of Tarras [S.], which see; extinct 1693. (^) "Onthe [Whig] Ministry beginning to totter, in i84i,they were so determined, before their exclusion, to reward their Attorney-General for his political and profes- sional exertions, that they ventured on the bold and questionable step of removing their ancient Colleague, Lord Plunket, from the Chancellorship of Ireland for the pur- pose of raising Sir John [Campbell] to that dignity and decking him with a Peerage." This was accordingly done, and "after sitting only one or two days in the Irish Court he made a speech to the Bar, in which he plainly intimates his expectation of soon being 'reduced to a private station.' The Ministry succumbed in August, and Lord Campbell, retiring with them, finished his short tenure of office; but though entitled to a pension of ;^4,000, the job was so gross and notorious that the Ministry did not ven- ture to offer nor he to claim it." See Foss's Judges of England. See also text and note sub I Lord Plunket. (*') For this and other great offices of State see Appendix D to this volume. i^) He edited a series of reports at Nisi Prius. Besides his legal works he was author (1845-47) of the Lives of tiu Lord Chancellor's down to the resignation of Lord Eldon (1827), of which the concluding vol. (pub. after his death) containing "Lynd- hurst and Brougham," "is a marvel of inaccuracy and misrepresentation, if [indeed it was] not written with actual malice," and " has done more than anything else to lower the reputation" of its author. See Diet. Nat. Biog. In 1849 he brought out the Lives of the Chief Justices down to 1788, and in 1857 ^'""^ ^"^1 v° thereof, containing the lives of "Kenyon, Ellenborough, and Tenterden."