Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Campbell-Bannerman, Henry

​CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN, Henry, M.P., is the second son of the late Sir James Campbell, of Stracathro, Forfarshire, by Janet, ​youngest daughter of the late Mr. Henry Bannerman, of Manchester, and was born in 1836. He was educated at the University of Glasgow, and at Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A. 1868; M.A. 1861). In 1872 he assumed the additional surname of Bannerman, under the will of his uncle, Mr. Henry Bannerman, of Hunton Court, Kent. Mr. Campbell-Bannerman, who is a magistrate for the counties of Lanark and Kent, has represented the Stirling district of boroughs in the Liberal interest since Dec, 1868; he was Financial Secretary at the War Office from 1871 to 1874; was again appointed to that office in 1880; and in May, 1882, was nominated to succeed Mr. Trevelyan as Secretary to the Admiralty. He married in 1860 Charlotte, daughter of the late Major-General Sir Charles Bruce, K.C.B.

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