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Rev. Sholto Douglas Campbell |
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Coat of arms dated 1869 |
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Coat of arms of
Sholto Douglas-Campbell
and Violet Paget |
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Sholto Douglas's tomb at Douglas Support |
THE Rev. Sholto Douglas Campbell, M.A., second Baron Blythswood, is the
second son of the late
Archibald Douglas of Mains, who succeeded to the Blythswood
estate in 1838, and assumed the name of Campbell.
After spending some time at Cheam School, he was educated for the army,
but presently, with a view to holy orders, he entered Trinity College,
Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1864 and M.A. in 1878. In the
following year he was ordained by the Bishop of Worcester, and after
holding successive appointments at Nuneaton, Gateshead, and Derby, he was
assigned by the Crown the District Rectory of All Souls, Marylebone, in
1878.
He took an active part in initiating the parochial mission movement in
the Church of England, and though he had inherited the estate of Douglas
Support, near Coatbridge, from Brigadier-General Sir Thomas Monteith
Douglas in 1868, he remained in his English charge till 1887. In that year
he accepted the incumbency of St. Silas' English Episcopal Church, off
Woodlands Road, Glasgow, which had been built by his father and
others. This charge he resigned only in 1899.
He succeeded his brother, the first Lord Blythswood, in the title and
estates in July, 1908. A month previously his own historic residence of
Douglas Support had been destroyed by fire, but 'it is being rebuilt and
will be occupied by his brother and heir
General Barrington C. Douglas.'
'His Lordship has for long been in the habit of holding a conference of
clergymen of all evangelical denominations at Douglas Support thrice a
year for consideration of devotional and missionary subjects. He has three
mission halls on the estate, and supports a resident missionary and
Bible-woman.'
In 1899 he married Violet Mary, daughter of the late Lord Alfred Paget,
and grand-daughter of the late Marquis of Anglesey. She died in June,
1908.
The grandson of Provost (of Glasgow) Colin Campbell
entailed the Blythswood estates in 1739 strictly on his heirs male. On
the failure of these in 1767, it passed, in terms of this entail, to
James Douglas of Mains, the
head of an ancient family settled in the parish of New Kilpatrick and
county of Dumbarton. He assumed the title of Campbell of Blythswood, and
dying in 1773 was succeeded in Blythswood, first by his elder son, John,
who was killed at Martinique, and next by his younger son, Archibald,
who was M.P. for the Glasgow District of Burghs. Both died unmarried,
the latter in 1838. A third son, James, died a lieutenant in the 55th
regiment in 1781.
The Campbells of Blythswood in the direct line, having
thus again failed, the Douglases of Mains for the second time furnished
a successor to Blythswood, in the person of Archibald Douglas of Mains.
He took the name of Campbell, and, under the entail, gave up the estate
of Mains to his brother Colin. On his death in 1868
Archibald Campbell
Campbell, his eldest son, succeeded (see Mains).
Paget Memorial Mission Hall
Randells Rd., York Way. Built 1911 by Revd. Sholto Douglas
Campbell-Douglas, Ld. Blythswood, in memory of w. Violet Mary Paget (d.
1908), who before marriage had held bible classes at the site 1887-9,
while a Mildmay deaconess. Additions made 1915. Interior, unusually
decorated with richly carved figures, contains breakfast set given to
the couple by Queen Victoria. Svces. held 1983 under auspices of Lond.
City Mission.
The London Gazette, 10 July 1917
Re Violet Mary Douglas, Deceased.
Pursuant .to the Act of Parliament 22nd and 23rd Vic., cap. 35,
entituled "An Act to further amend the Law of Property and to relieve
Trustees."
Notice is hereby given, that all creditors and other persons having any
debts, claims or demands upon or against the estate of Violet Mary
Douglas, Wife of the late Reverend Sholto Douglas Campbell Douglas
(afterwards Lord Blythswood), of Douglas Support, Coatbridge, in the
county of Lanark, deceased (who died on the 13th day of June, 1908, and
whose will was proved an the Sheriff Court of Lanarkshire, on the 23rd
day of September, 1908, by Almeric Hugh Paget Esq., M.P., of Claremont,
Esher, Surrey, and 39, Berkeley-square, London, and Major George Thomas
Cavendish Paget, of Gardner House, Hampstead, London, the executors
therein named), are hereby required to send in the particulars, in
writing, of their claims and demands .to us, the undersigned, the
Solicitors for the said executors, on or before the 20th day of August,
1917, after which date the said executors will proceed to distribute the
assets of the said deceased amongst the persons entitled thereto, having
regard only to the debts, claims and demands of which they shall then
have had notice; and they wall not be liable for the assets of the said
deceased, or any part thereof, so distributed, to any person or persons
of whose claims and demands they shall not then have .had notice.-'Dated
this 7th July, 1917.
John H. Mote and Son, 11, Gray's Inn-square, London, W.C., Solicitors
for the said Executors.,
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Auckland
Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 282, 25 November 1916, Page 14
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Rev Lord Blythswood's funeral |
See also: • Kirkstyle
cottages •
Douglas-Campbell armorials
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Paget Memorial Mission Hall, Islington
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