Of Coorshorne, Cranbrook, Kent
Of Alfreton.
William was employed as a Pimento Planter and Penkeeper in 1754 in St. Ann, Jamaica.
Died unmarried.
Died in infancey.
At Danny, aged seven years, Henry Francis Campion, eldest son of William John Campion, esq. of Danny, in this county, He was a child of greatest promise, and the circumstancs of his death were particularly melancholy. A spark from the fire, which had just been lighted, communicating to his night-dress, it instantly burst into flames, by which the child was so much burnt, that he only survived the accident two days.
Source: The Monthly Magazine or British Register Vol XXIX Part I. for 1810, page 189.
High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1731.