Robert Nutter Campbell

???? - 11th Apr 1845

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Son of Mungo Campbell of Hundelshope and Elizabeth Nutter. Date of birth unknown. Genealogical sources indicate that Mungo Campbell was a planter of Grenada and his wife an heiress of Grenada.

  1. Subject with his wife Margaret of a double portrait by Henry Raeburn on display at Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow. A seond Raeburn portrait of him is held in storage in Glasgow Museums' collections. No evidence of a commercial career, although some secondary sources refer to him as a Glasgow merchant. Apparently a soldier early in his life: Robert Nutter Campbell appears sequentially as an Ensign and Captain in the 94th Regiment of Foot in 1791 and 1792. Thereafter he appears as Lt-Col in the Peebleshire Militia in 1808. The Robert Nutter Campbell who was a half-pay captain in the 94th Foot in 1826 was a different man. Inventory of Robert Nutter Campbell of Kailzie, residing at no. 41 Melville Street, Edinburgh, registered 04/06/1845; the will of Robert Nutter Campbell, late of Kailzie but now residing in Edinburgh proved the same day.

Sources

T71/880 Grenada claim no. 780 (Carriere); Robert Nutter Campbell of Ormidale (1799-1856) was apparently unconnected.

  1. Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Bequeathed by Isabella A H J Campbell, 1917, ID Numbers 1594 and 1424 (licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License); reference to him as a Glasgow merchant appear in e.g. http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB15420 [accessed 08/07/2018]; London Gazette, Issue 12129, 21/10/1780, p. 1 [which refers to the 49th Regiment of Foot]; London Gazette, Issue 12316, 23/07/1782, p. 3; London Gazette, Issue 16210, 17/12/1808, p. 1713; London Gazette, Issue 18221, 18/02/1826, p. 363; SC70/1/66; SC70/4/1.

We are grateful to Katinka Stentoft Dalglish for her assistance with compiling this entry.


Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish
Spouse
Margaret Montgomery (1791)

Associated Claims (1)

£6,030 14s 1d
Beneficiary

Associated Estates (1)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner

Legacies Summary

Physical (1)

Country house
Kailzie House [Built] 
description →
Kailzie House, Scots Mill, built for Robert Nutter Campbell 1802 or 1803. Demolished c. 1958....
notes →
...

Relationships (3)

Other relatives
Notes →
Shown as 'cousins' in some sources, e.g. https://hallyards.org/history/...
Son → Father
Brother-in-laws

Addresses (2)

41 Melville Street, Edinburgh, Midlothian (Edinburgh), Central Scotland, Scotland
Kailzie House, Peeblesshire, Southern Scotland, Scotland