William Campion

William Campion

Infobox Officeholder
honorific-prefix = Sir
name = William Campion
honorific-suffix =
KCMG, DSO, TD


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caption =
order = 22nd
office = Governor of Western Australia
term_start = October 28, 1924
term_end = June 9, 1931
lieutenant =
monarch = King George V
| predecessor = Sir Francis Newdigate Newdegate
successor = Sir James Mitchell (from 1948)
birth_date = birth date|1870|7|3
birth_place = London, England, UK
death_date = death date and age|1951|1|2|1870|7|3
death_place = Hassocks, Sussex, England, UK
restingplace =
restingplacecoordinates =
birthname = William Robert Campion
nationality = British
party = Conservative
spouse = Katherine Mary Byron
partner =
nickname =
allegiance = United Kingdom
branch = British Army
serviceyears =
rank = Colonel
unit = Royal Sussex Regiment
commands =
battles = World War I
awards = Distinguished Service Order

Colonel Sir William Robert Campion KCMG, DSO, TD (3 July 1870 – 2 January 1951) was a British politician and Governor of Western Australia from 1924 to 1931.

Born in England in 1870, he was educated at Eton and Oxford University, and was the Conservative MP for Lewes between 1910 and 1924, when he was knighted and given the governorship of Western Australia.

Campion was commissioned into the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment in 1888. He served in the First World War, reaching the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in 1915, and being awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1918.

He died in Sussex in 1951.


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