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VIII.— ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, ESQ. OF BARNHILL.
Son of Neil Campbell, Sheriff-Substitute of Dumbartonshire, by
Margaret,, eldest daughter of Walter Williamson of Chapleton and
Aikenbar. Born in 1776, Alexander Campbell, the eighth in
descent from John the first of Barnhill, studied in the University of
Glasgow, and passed afterwards to Edinburgh, where he studied law
under Baron Hume. In 1802 Mr. Campbell was appointed Sheriff-
substitute of Renfrewshire, and discharged the laborious duties of that
office for nearly forty-five years, some of them marked by strong
political feeling and agitation. When Mr. Campbell retired from
office in 1847, the county of Renfrew voted a costly testimonial of
their sense of his great services, in the form of a superb model of the
celebrated Warwick vase, fn solid silver. After his retirement from
official life Mr. Campbell resided at his property of Barnhill, near to
his surviving brother, Sheriff H. W. Campbell of Croslet, and which
had been inherited from his maternal uncle, Mr. Walter Colquhoun.
In 1808 Mr. Campbell married Fanny, daughter of Robert Orr,
Esq., and had issue two sons and six daughters ; (1) Neil Colquhoun
Campbell, Advocate, Sheriff of Ayrshire, (2) Robert Orr, now of
Croslet, merchant, Madras and London. The six daughters were
(1) Janet, (2) Margaret, married Rev. James Begg, D.D., Free
Church, Newington ; (3) Fanny, married James White, Esq. of
Overton, with issue one son and four daughters ; (4) Susan, married
R. D. Mackenzie, Esq., with issue one son and five daughters;
(5) Elizabeth, married Walter Mackenzie, Esq. of Edinbarnet,
accountant, Glasgow, with issue, two sons and two daughters;
(6) Alexa Grace, married Andrew Jamieson, Esq., Advocate,
Sheriff of Aberdeenshire, with issue two sons. Sheriff Alexander
Campbell of Barnhill died 2d October, 1862, aged 86, and was
succeeded by his eldest son Neil Colquhoun Campbell, mentioned
above, born October 181 3, married Mary Paterson, daughter of
William Orr Paterson, Esq. of Montgomerie, Ayrshire, with surviv-
ing issue one daughter, Annie Colquhoun Campbell.