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At the end of WWI, Niall Campbell, The 10th Duke of Argyll and Honorary Colonel of The 8th Battalion of The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, commissioned architects Hoare and Wheeler to design a memorial bell tower in Inveraray to commemorate The Clan Campbell dead, the original idea being to link the new tower to the 1886-built church but, hampered by funding problems, the construction of the tower did not begun until 1921 and it was not completed until the autumn of 1931 - Niall Campbell was himself something of an eccentric in that he hated telephones and motor cars and would e.g. greet tourists with recitals from Italian operas and actually laboured on the building himself to get it finished.