Alan Campbell, Baron Campbell of Alloway

The son of John Kenneth Campbell and Juliet Pinner, he was educated at Aldenham School, Hertfordshire and Ecole des Sciences Politiques in Paris in 1934.

From 1939 to 1940, Campbell served in the Royal Artillery Supplementary Reserve, British Expeditionary Force, reaching the rank of Second Lieutenant, and was a Prisoner of War in Colditz Castle from 1940 to 1945.

In 1975 Campbell became a member of the Management Committee of the United Kingdom Association for European Law, and in 1976 he was appointed Recorder of the Crown Court, holding both posts until 1989.

On 2 June 1981, he was created a life peer with the title Baron Campbell of Alloway, of Ayr in the District of Kyle and Carrick.

Following the death of Edward Short, Baron Glenamara in May 2012, Campbell became the oldest sitting member of the House of Lords.