William Campbell, Lord Skerrington (1855–1927) was a Scottish judge. He was the first Catholic judge in the country since the Reformation.
Life
The son of Robert Campbell, a magistrate in Ayrshire, he was born on 27 June 1855. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and the University of Edinburgh.
From 1905 to 1908, Campbell served as the elected Dean of the Faculty of Advocates."Skerrington, Hon. Lord", Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, April 2014, accessed 18 October 2017. On 15 October 1908 he was created a Senator of the College of Justice and retained the role until 1926.
In later life, he lived at 12 Randolph Crescent in Edinburgh's West End.Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1910
He died at his home in Edinburgh on 21 July 1927. He is buried in St Johns Churchyard at the west end of Princes Street in Edinburgh. The grave is marked by a simple stone cross and lies in the lower section.
His biography was written by Francis Caird Inglis.
Family He married Alice Mary Fraser (d. 1929) in 1880, and they had three children.
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