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Monday, February 13, 2006

Lady Campbell

Lady Campbell, who died in New Zealand, 5 October, 2005, was the second wife of Sir Robin Auchinbreck Campbell, 15th Baronet, and was a first cousin of HRH The Duchess of Kent.
She was the former Elizabeth Colegate, one of the four daughters of Sir Arthur Colegate, Kt (d. 1956), sometime Conservative MP for Burton-on-Trent, of Bembridge, Isle of Wight, by his wife, the former Winifred Mary Worsley, daughter of Sir William Worsley, 3rd Baronet.
She married firstly, 1947 (div. 1956) Richard Wellesley Gunston (later Sir Richard Gunston, 2nd Baronet, who d. 1991), a descendant of the Dukes of Wellington; and married secondly, as his second wife, Sir Robin (who succeeded to the baronetcy in 1970), at St Thomas's Church, Fendalton, Christchurch, New Zealand, 4 November, 1978. (Source: Daily Telegraph 7 Nov, 1978). (Sir Robin's first wife, the former Rosemary (Sally) Dean, had died at Montanau, North Canterbury, New Zealand, earlier in 1978 (Source: Daily Telegraph 8 Mar 1978).
She leaves a daughter from the first marriage, Caroline Jane, b. 1950, who m. 1971, Jonathan Robert Felton Peel, and has issue.
A Memorial Service takes place 28 Oct 2005, at Holt Trinity Church, Bembridge, Isle of Wight.


Source: Daily Telegraph 8 Oct 2005

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