Dixon Gardens in Weston/Bath, Somerset

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Re: Dixon Gardens in Weston/Bath, Somerset

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SteelCamel wrote: Tue Jul 20, 2021 21:57
Not sure on the geography. The Campbells are one of the biggest and most influential Scottish clans, and show up pretty much everywhere, particularly in politics. But there's this...

Pryse Campbell 17th Thane of Cawdor MP (1727-68).... "He died intestate on 14 December 1768 at Bath and was buried at Weston Church nearby, to the great distress of his father". The ancestral family home is Cawdor (near Inverness) and he seems to have been living at Stackpole in Pembrokeshire, so how he ended up dying in Bath is unclear. But John Campbell MP FRS 18th Thane of Cawdor 1st Baron Cawdor (1755-1821) also died in Bath (but was buried at Bath Abbey not Weston), and his son married a daughter of the Marquess of Bath. So possibly there is some connection.
Taking the waters at Bath was about as good as treatment got for unknown maladies in the 18th century.
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