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Rh known to his friends not merely as a beloved companion, 'but also in the several roles of the poet, the artist, the reader, the talker, the tramp, and last, of course, the soldier.' Born in 1890, he was the son of Lord George Campbell, brother of the late Duke of Argyll. From Eton he went to Oxford; about the end of 1912, until March 1914, he was honorary attaché to the British Embassy at Washington, and Lord Eustace Percy, who was with him there, tells of the keen interest he took in America's democratic institutions and 'the political and economic life of the whole country.' Himself an idealist, 'it was simple "humanness" that he looked for, and he naturally found it on all sides.' The whole picture his friends give of Ivar Campbell is the picture of a very alive, kindly, attractive personality. 'He had his intolerances,' says Lord Eustace, 'but never where there was a call on his essential chivalry. His real qualities were a sympathy and affection ever waiting for a demand upon them, and never failing to meet such a demand.'