Saddell Castle (15)
Colonel Campbell son John died in 1797, whereupon John's son, another John, inherited Saddell.  Wee John was still very young when first his father died and then his mother the following year.  Perhaps because of the absence of parental control and advice, he grew up to be a fun loving big spender.  A bon viveur!  For his twenty-first birthday party he filled Saddell Castle and Saddell House with his guests, and no one was allowed to cross the burn between the two without partaking of a dram!  

Unfortunately John Campbell found Saddell too remote from the 'good life' and was soon living the life of a rich young bachelor, with a flat in London, as well as another in Paris as well as a yacht.  He was also a keen hunting man, with a hunting box in Melton Mowbray.  He must have kept a horse in Edinburgh too, because there is a story of his riding 20 miles back to Edinburgh after hunting one day and 30 miles to a meet the other side of Edinburgh, the next.  He was known locally as “The Rider”.

As many another has found, both before and since, money seldom lasts for ever and by 1824 he had seriously overspent.  Initially, he was forced to sell outlying parts of the Saddell estate, but in 1836 he sold the rest, including the house and Castle, to Lieut. General Robert Campbell of Kintarbert.  He continued, however, to call himself Campbell of Glensaddell!
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