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- http://www.coupar-angus.org/folkhtm/campbell.htm
David Campbell, eldest son of David Campbell and Susanna (Susan) Watson married Mary Lyon Playfair, 4th daughter of James Playfair, Principal of the University of St. Andrews, and Margaret Lyon. She was born in 1780 and died 6t August 1809, she is interred in the Cathedral Burial Ground, St. Andrews. In a tree of the Playfair famiy (1885) she is called Margaret, but this is apparently an error. She seems to have afterwards assumed the name of 'Lyon', her mother's name.
David Campbell was born at Coupar Angus on 1st November 1747. He entered the service of the Honorable East India Company in 1771 as a cadet in the Madras stablishment, was appointed Ensign in the same year in the 1st Caruatic Battalion of Sepoys (now the 61st Prince of Wales's Own Pioneers), Lieutenant in 1778, Captain in 1784, Colonel 1792, Major 1794 and Lieutenant-Colonel in 1796. In 1799 he commanded his old regiment (the 1st) at the siege and capture of Seringapataw. In 1805 he came home on furlough in 1809 he was promoted to Major General and in 1814 Lieutenant-General. In 1806 on his return to Scotland he erected a tombstone in the Parish Churchyard in Coupar Angus to the memory of his father and mother. In the same year he obtained a Grant of Aires dated 6th November 1806 and Heir Male Representative of Alexander Campbell of Balgaisha. In 1809 he purchased from Government the Priory of St. Andrews and erected the existing buildings for himself.
The estate of Williamston in the Parish of Madderty and County of Perth was purchased by David Campbell from the Trustees of Lord Lynedoch in 1815. In 1822 he completed titile to the subjects of Coupar Angus. The instrument of Sasine dated 19th October 1822, and recorded in the Particular Register of Sasines for the County of Perth on 22nd October 1822 of the above subjects is in favour of General David Campbell of Williamston, residing at St. Andrews and follows upon an extract Registered Deed of Settlement dated 3rd September 1788 by David Campbell Fenar in Coupar Angus, then deceased, in favour of the said general David Campbell whereby the said David Campbell disposed to Susan Watson, his wife in liferent, and to David Campbell his son therein denominated Captain in the Service of the East India Company, then General David Campbell of Williamston, whom failing to David Inches, eldest son of marriage betwixt Thomas Inches, Merchant in Coupar Angus, and Elizabeth Campbell eldest daughter of the said deceased David Campbell.
The Disposition of 1826 in favour of David Anderson was signed by General Campbell at the Priory, St. Andrews on 5th January 1826, before David Bruce, his coachman and John Saunders his gardener. In 1815 he granted a Precept of Clare Coustat as part of the subjects in favour of Mary Brodie in which he is described as Lieutenant-General David Campbell in the service of the East India Company as immediate lawful superior of subjects which "were disposed by the deceast david Campbell, Merchant in Coupar Angus, my father". The deed was signed at St. Andrews by General Campbell on 16th November 1815 before William Crow his gardener and William Christie his butler.
In the Edinburgh Evening Courant of Saturday, 2nd February, 1828 there is a notice of the death of Lieutenant-General David Campbell of Williamston, who died at the Priory, St. Andrews of 27th January 1828 aged 81.
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1747 - 1789 (41 years)
