Walter Campbell of Shawfield

Walter Campbell, 3rd of Shawfield and Islay and 9th of Skipness (29 December 1741 – 19 October 1816) was a Scottish landowner, advocate and Rector of Glasgow University. Early life Campbell was born on 29 December 1741 into the Clan Campbell of Cawdor. He was a son of John Campbell of Shawfield (1696–1746) and Lady Henrietta Cunningham, who married in 1735. His father had been previously married, without issue, to Lady Margaret Campbell (a daughter of Hugh Campbell, 3rd Earl of Loudoun and sister of John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun). His older brothers were Daniel Campbell, 2nd of Shawfield (an MP for Lanarkshire who died unmarried in 1777) and John Campbell, 8th of Skipness. His maternal grandparents were William Cunningham, 12th Earl of Glencairn and Lady Henrietta Stewart (second daughter of Alexander Stewart, 3rd Earl of Galloway and Lady Mary Douglas, a daughter of James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Queensberry). His cousins James and John both became Earls of Glencairn. His paternal grandparents were Margaret (née Leckie) Campbell (the daughter of John Leckie of Newlands) and Daniel Campbell, a follower of the Duke of Argyll who represented Inverary in the Scottish parliament from 1702 until the union (he was one of the commissioners who signed the treaty). He sat in the first Parliament of Great Britain and represented the Glasgow Burghs from 1716 to 1734. In 1711, he built Shawfield Mansion, his residence in Glasgow which became famous in connection with the Shawfield riots in 1725. Career His father died in 1746, predeceasing his grandfather, who died in 1753. Therefore, Walter's elder brother Daniel was their grandfather's heir. When Daniel died, unmarried and without issue, in 1777, Walter inherited the estate and became 3rd of Shawfield and Laird of Islay, Scotland.