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Name: CAMPBELL, Alexander McCulloch CMG
Birth Date: 15 July 1879 Greenock, Renfrew, Scotland
Death Date: 20 Feb 1955 Kenilworth, Cape Town
First Date: 1930
Last Date: 1938
Profession: Union Castle Co. shipping director
Area: Mombasa
Married: In Cape Town 25 Feb 1915 Helen Murdoch Murray, widow, b. 1876 Scotland, d. 28 Aug 1955 Plumstead, Wynberg, S. Africa (prev. m. James Carmichael d. in Australia 1910)
Children: Iain (1917)
Book Reference: Red 31, Macmillan, EA & Rhodesia
General Information:
East Africa & Rhodesia - 3/3/55 - Mr Alexander McCulloch Campbell, CMG, whose death in S. Africa at the age of 75 is reported, was born in Scotland, and had been in the office of a Greenock shipowning house before he joined the Cape Town branch of the Union-Castle Line in 1904. He went to Durban in 1921 as head of the freight department, and to Mombasa in 1927 as agent. From 1938 until the end of 1949 he was chief agent for South and East Africa, with headquarters in the Cape. …. Campbell, a most hospitable person, a keen golfer, and a good and witty speaker, made and kept many friends, and his departure for South Africa was widely regretted. What his company thought of him was made evident when he became the first member of the staff anywhere in Africa to receive the compliment and honour of election to the board. He was a director until 1950. He is survived by Mrs Campbell and a son.
Gazette - 8/4/1930 - Liable to serve as Jurors and Assessors - A M Campbell, Union Castle Mail S S Co. Ltd., Mombasa