There'll Always Be an England

The obituary of Lord (Gordon) Campbell of Croy, who died on Tuesday aged 83, in today's Telegraph (UK):

He was a keen ornithologist, and campaigned to exterminate the Highland midge, drawing attention to the usefulness of Natterer's bat and the red mite in tackling the menace. He also had a sharp eye, and once revealed a misdescribed portrait in the National Gallery. The picture, which hung in the Commons Committee corridor on loan from the gallery, was said to depict the great railway engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Campbell realised it actually showed Brunel's father, Sir Marc Isambard Brunel. His knowledge derived from the fact that his wife was a descendant of the Brunels.

Campbell was created a life peer in 1974.

(via reader Ken Robinson)