Walter Frederick Campbell

He intended to retain the island's population, to avoid mass eviction and to counter voluntary emigration.

To that end, he built new villages and improved infrastructure, worked to diversify agriculture and also dictated its reform.

[4] Local features were the relative absence, compared with most of the western Scottish Highlands, of tenants with larger sheep farms, and the incidence of land subdivision associated with kelp production.

[9] Official policy was to use a Drainage Act for job creation, and for many landlords there was considerable benefit: but in the Islay case a successful application for support by Campbell led to his trustees running the employment schemes that kept tenants solvent.

[9] Campbell spent some time with his ailing sister Harriet Bury, Countess of Charleville, in Italy.