<P> Patrick and Beatrice first met at a card party at the house of Mrs Gifford in Dulwich and eloped within four months to marry at St Helen, Bishopsgate . Patrick's health was poor and in 1887 he was ordered by his doctor to take a sea voyage . He was to stay away for six and a half years in Australia and then Mashonaland, he found some work but never sent enough back for her and the children to live on . When he returned in 1893 she saw that "his health and energies were undermined by fever, failure, and the most bitter disappointments", whereas she was by then a successful actress . In mid-March 1900 Patrick returned to South Africa to join Lord Chesham's Yeomanry; he was killed in a charge at Boshof on 5 April, the action in which Colonel de Villebois - Mareuil died . </P> <P> Their son Alan Urquhart' Beo' Campbell (1885--1917) became a Naval Cadet in 1898 at HMS Britannia and was about to take his naval entrance exams when his father died in 1900 . He left the navy that year and went to Oxford and later worked as an actor . In 1908, on tour with his mother he met Helen Parker Bull (1885--1981), they married in 1909 in Quincy Illinois, and divorced in 1915 . He re-joined the RNVR at the outbreak of war, became a Lieutenant Commander, was awarded the Military Cross and bar . On 30 Dec 1917 he was killed by a shell while serving in the Royal Naval Division at La Vacquerie on the Cambrai front . </P> <P> Their daughter Stella also joined her mother on stage; and toured with her in the USA then "made up her mind to marry a man (Beatrice) scarcely knew, who had lived in Africa for many years". She left for Kenya in early 1911 to marry Mervyn Worcester Howard Beech (1881--1923). </P> <P> In 1909 she produced His Borrowed Plumes by Lady Randolph Churchill whose husband, George Cornwallis - West, was "seriously attracted to me". They married on 6 April 1914, the day after the decree absolute of his divorce . </P>

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