Lady Victoria Campbell

4 CHILDHOOD AND HOME
At that date his preaching was free of the interpreta-
tion of prophecy to which he devoted so much of
his thought in the later years of his long ministry.
The Duke attended Crown Court Church, and Dr.
Cumming baptized several members of the family.
Queen Victoria desired the Duke to call his daughter
by her name, and Dr. Cumming administered the
rite of baptism.
There was a family legend that the child screamed
so loudly and insistently, that her father impatiently
ordered her to be removed from the room before the
christening took place. No doubt she was hastily
removed after its administration, and before the
close of the service. It was a great joke to Lady
Victoria, especially as the record in the registry
could never be found for her inspection. In one of
the last years of her life she sent Mr. Macrae, the
minister of Crown Court, an inkstand made from
Iona marble, requesting him to use it for the proper
registration of the infants baptized by him, and she
used to say that the matter should be made certain,
and she should receive, " conditional " baptism,
though the day was far spent.
At Argyll Lodge her infant years were passed, and
the circumstances of her life made it a place of more
constant residence for her than for the rest of the
family. Like her father, she dearly loved the home
of her childhood, and in later years especially
delighted in its peaceful surroundings.
Secluded Campden Hill remains even now, but in
the early fifties, from the upper windows of these