Sir Guy Campbell, 1st Baronet

Major-General Sir Guy Campbell, 1st Baronet, (22 January 1786 – 26 January 1849) was a British Army officer. His branch of the Campbell baronets is referred to as St Cross Mede.

Early life Campbell was born on 22 January 1786. He was the eldest son of Lieutenant-General Colin Campbell and his wife Mary Johnson. Rev. Colin Alexander Campbell (who married Hon. Beatrice Charlotte Byng, daughter of the 5th Viscount Torrington),

His maternal grandparents were Guy Johnson and Mary "Polly" Johnson (the daughter of Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet). His paternal grandparents were John Campbell, First Cashier of the Royal Bank of Scotland, and Anne Carolina Campbell (a daughter of landowner James Campbell of Tofts). His paternal grandfather was an illegitimate son of the Hon. Colin Campbell of Ardmaddie, a son of John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland by his second marriage to the former Mary Sinclair, Countess of Caithness ( Lady Mary Campbell), the widow of George Sinclair, 6th Earl of Caithness who was a daughter of Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll).

Sir Guy died in 1849 at Dún Laoghaire after a long illness and is buried at Collins Barracks, then known as the Royal Barracks, in Dublin.

Descendants Sir Guy's descendant, Sir Guy Campbell, 5th Baronet, was baronet from 1960 until his death in 1993, and the current baronet, Lachlan Campbell, is his son.

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