poor was proverbial. He gave up his seat in the House of Commons for one in the House of Lords when created Baron Cawdor of Castlemartin in the County of Pembroke on 21 June 1796. In 1797 he was the commander of the Pembrokeshire Yeomanry, who defeated Napoleon's troops in the Last invasion of Britain. The following year he was appointed Colonel of the Carmarthenshire Militia. In 1800 Cawdor sold the contents of his Museum. Several items were sold to the architect, Sir John Soane. In 1804 he added to his extensive land-holdings by inheriting John Vaughan's estates at Golden Grove, Carmarthenshire. In 1808 he was Mayor of Carmarthen. Lord Cawdor died on 1 June 1821, at Bath and was buried at Bath Abbey. On 28 July 1789 he had married Lady Isabella Caroline Howard – daughter of Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle and Margaret Caroline Leveson-Gower. They had two children: John Frederick Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor (1790–1860), married Elizabeth Thynne, daughter of the 2nd Marquis of Bath Rear-Admiral Hon. George Pryse Campbell (1793–12 August 1858), married on 13 October 1821 Charlotte Gascoyne, daughter of Isaac Gascoyne. A portrait of John Campbell was made by Joshua Reynolds (1778; now in Cawdor Castle, Nairn); a miniature of him by Richard Cosway is in the National Galleries of Scotland. Further reading I. Bignamini, C. Hornsby, Digging And Dealing in Eighteenth-Century Rome (2010. Yale U.P.), pp. 249–251. John E. Davies, The Changing Fortunes of a British Aristocratic Family: The Campbells of Cawdor and their Welsh Estates, 1689–1976 (The Boydell Press, ). A Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy, 1701–1800, Compiled from the Brinsley Ford Archive by John Ingamells (1997). F. Russell, "A Distinguished Generation: the Cawdor Collection", in Country Life; (14 June 1984), p. 1746–1748. E. H. Stuart-Jones, The Last Invasion of Britain (1950). References 1753 births 1821 deaths People educated at Eton College Alumni of Clare College, Cambridge British art collectors John Campbell, 1st Baron Cawdor Barons in the Peerage of Great Britain Cawdor Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Welsh constituencies Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Scottish constituencies British MPs 1774–1780 British MPs 1780–1784 British MPs 1784–1790 British MPs 1790–1796 Mayors of places in Wales Pembroke Yeomanry officers Carmarthen Militia officers 18th-century Scottish people 19th-century Scottish people Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London