Family of John Pennock Campbell and Caroline Anne Emma Rivett-Carnac

Husband: John Pennock Campbell (1835-1903)
Wife: Caroline Anne Emma Rivett-Carnac (1844-1921)
Children: Constance Annie Henrietta Campbell (1875-1963)

Husband: John Pennock Campbell

Name: John Pennock Campbell
Sex: Male
Father: -
Mother: -
Birth 4 Feb 1835 Jamaica
Death fact 1903 (age 67-68) 1903 Dec Q, Kensington, 1a/136 (aged 66)
Death 25 Dec 1903 (age 68) 10 Drayton Gardens, South Kensington, Middlesex

Wife: Caroline Anne Emma Rivett-Carnac

Name: Caroline Anne Emma Rivett-Carnac
Sex: Female
Father: -
Mother: -
Birth 1844 Warborn Boldre, Hampshire
Death 4 Jul 1921 (age 76-77) The Nursing House, St. Georges Road, Pimlico, Middlesex

Child 1: Constance Annie Henrietta Campbell

Name: Constance Annie Henrietta Campbell
Sex: Female
Spouse: William Augustus Ward (1847-1931)
Birth 1875 Hythe, Kent
Death 11 Nov 1963 (age 87-88) 8 Calverley Park, Tunbridge Wells, Kent

Note on Husband: John Pennock Campbell

JOHN PENNOCK CAMPBELL: The eldest son of Colonel Archibald Campbell was born on 4th February 1835 in Jamaica and was mainly educated abroad at Frankfurt and Dresden with his brother Robert Olphert and consequently both brothers were good linguists and could read, write and speak French, German and modern Greek fluently.

On 13th May 1853 he obtained without purchase his Ensigncy in the 97th Foot and transferred to the 30th Foot on February, 1854. He got his Lieutenancy on 6th November 1854 without purchase and served with the regiment in the Crimea at Alma and Inkerman; at the latter battle he had four or five balls through his clothes, one of them tearing of the tail of his coat in which was his pocket containing nine pounds, belonging to his company. The amount was repaid by Government on the recommendation of a Court of Enquiry. He received the Crimean medal with clasps Alma, Inkerman and Sebastopol, the Turkish Crimean medal and 5th class Medjidie. He obtained his Captaincy

without purchase in April 1858 and became Brevet-Major 1872, Major 31st October. Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel 16th March 1880, Lieut-Colonel 1st July 1881, Colonel 16th March 1884 and commanded the Regiment at Ferozepore from 10th November 1885 to 1st July 1887, when owing to a new Royal Warrant he was obliged to go on retired pay after a service of 33 years in the 30th Foot and was made a Major-General.

He had served with the regiment in Turkey, Crimea, Gibraltar, Canada and India. At home he had been employed for eight years, 1870-8 on musketry duties as D.A.A.G. at Portsmouth and Hythe. He married 21st January 1875, Caroline Anne Emma, daughter of Sir John Rivett-Carnac, 2nd bart., and died on 25th December 1904 (sic) leaving 5 daughters. A son, Archibald Pennock Rivett-Carnac Campbell who served in the South African war with his 4th Battn., Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders had died 28th March,1903.

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