CAMPBELL OF AIRDS, Mrs Alastair (Mary Ann nee CAMPBELL-PRESTON) 1940-2024

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 11 Dec 2024: CAMPBELL Mary Ann (Campbell-Preston) died peacefully on Wednesday 4th December aged 84. Beloved wife of the late Alastair Campbell of Airds, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. Funeral at 11 a.m. on Friday 10th January in St John's Cathedral, Oban. Family flowers only please.

She was d of Lt-Col George Patrick CAMPBELL-PRESTON MBE 1911-60 scion of that Scots gentry family of Ardchattan and Dame Frances Olivia GRENFELL DCVO 1918-2022 (sometime Woman of the Bedchamber to The QUEEN MOTHER, gt gd of Pascoe St Leger GRENFELL 1798-1879 f of 1st Baron GRENFELL 1841-1925, as well gt gd of 4th Baron LYTTELTON 1817-76 f of 8th Viscount COBHAM 1842-1922). She m 1960 Alastair Lorne 1937-2022 sometime Islay Herald Extraordinary s of Brig Lorne Maclaine CAMPBELL OF AIRDS VC DSO OBE TD 1902-91 (who he succ. as) head of that Scots gentry family of Airds and Amy Muriel Jordan 1905-50 d of Alastair Magnus CAMPBELL of Auchendarroch 1868-1930 and Lilias Mary ROBERTSON-GLASGOW 1871-98 scion of that Scots gentry family f/o Montgreenan, and had three sons and a dau.