About Hugh Campbell
Lived 1812 – 1894 (aged 81). Hugh Campbell was a British politician and cricketer.
Sir Hugh Purves-Hume-Campbell, 7th Baronet (15 December 1812 – 30 January 1894) was a British Conservative and Tory politician.
Life He was born in 1812 and he was the son of William Purves-Hume-Campbell and Charlotte Rey. In 1834, he married Margaret Penelope Spottiswoode, daughter of John Spottiswoode and Helen Wauchope, and they had one child: Helen Purves-Hume-Campbell (–1875). A keen cricketer, he played first-class cricket twice for the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1837, playing at Lord's against Oxford University and Cambridge University.
He succeeded to the Baronetcy of Purves Hall in 1833 upon the death of his father. Upon his own death in 1894, the title was inherited by John Home-Purves-Hume-Campbell.
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Who was Hugh Campbell?
British politician
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Hugh Campbell was born on 15 December 1812.
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Hugh Campbell died on 30 January 1894.
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Hugh Campbell was a politician and cricketer.
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Hugh Campbell was British.
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· DBpedia: Sir Hugh Purves-Hume-Campbell, 7th Baronet
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