Walter Campbell of Shawfield

Walter Campbell of Shawfield (1741 – 19 October 1816) as a Scottish landowner, advocate and Rector of Glasgow University.

He was the grandson of Daniel Campbell MP.

He qualified as an advocate in 1763 and was Sheriff-Depute of Kincardineshire from 1767 to 1777. He was Rector of the University of Glasgow from 1789 to 1791. He was also the Laird of Islay, Scotland.

His son John Campbell (1770–1809) was an army officer and a Member of Parliament. John's son Walter Frederick Campbell inherited Islay in 1816 on his grandfather's death. His daughter Katherine married Sir Charles Jenkinson, 10th Baronet, a cousin of Lord Liverpool, the Prime Minister in 1812-27.