851 Richard Campbell

Constituency : Ayr  Burghs 1880-88 ( from  1886  Liberal  Unionist )

Richard  recaptured  Ayr  Burghs  from  the  Tories.

Richard's  grandfather  was  a  general. He  was  also  descended  from  William  Campbell  who  made  a  fortune  in  India. He  was  educated  at  Rugby  and  went  into  the  army  serving  in  the  8th  Madras  Cavalry.

Richard  made  just  one  brief  Commons  intervention  about  the  boundary  changes  in  1885. He  belonged  to  the  Whig  side  of  the  party. He  joined  the  LIberal  Unionists  in  1886.

He  died  in  1888  aged  56.