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CAMPBELL. R.N. (1826), who died in 1837, and of two military officers, who both lost their lives in the active service of their country, the one in consequence of the wounds he had received as Senior-Captain of the 59th Regt., when landing with the grenadiers of that corps at Java in 1811 – the other from the effects of the Walcheren fever; and uncle, by marriage, of Commanders, and

This officer entered the Navy, 4 June, 1791, as A.B., on board the 50, Capt. Lord Cranstoun, in which ship he served in the Channel until discharged in Sept. following. He re-embarked, in 1793, on board the 10, Capt. Jas. Hardy; became Midshipman, on 20 Oct. in the same year, of the 18, Capt. Thos. Western, under whom, on proceeding to the West Indies, he captured, among other vessels, La Victoire French privateer, of 18 guns; and was afterwards transferred in succession to the 74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Wm. Parker (in which he was present at the unsuccessful attack upon Leogane, St. Domingo, 22 March, 1796), and 74, bearing the flag in the North Sea of Admiral Duncan. In 1797 Mr. Campbell joined, as Acting-Lieutenant, the 74, Capt. Henry Trollope, and, after participating in the battle of Camperdown, was confirmed by the Admiralty 4 Jan. 1798. His next appointment was, 26 Oct. 1798, to the 32, Capt. Hon. Geo. Byng, on the Irish station, where, during a dark and stormy night in the winter of 1800, he was, with a crew of six volunteers, hoisted in a boat from off the booms of the ship to take possession of El Pensée Spanish letter-of-marque, carrying 20 men, whom for 10 days he had the onerous duty of keeping in subjection. On 15 Oct. 1802, he obtained the First-Lieutenancy of the 28, Capts. Geo. Mundy and Robt. Fanshawe, in the boats of which frigate he captured a French letter-of-marque on the coast of Norway in 1803. He afterwards accompanied a large convoy to the West Indies, and subsequently to his appointment, 20 Feb. 1805, to the command of the schooner, signalized himself in a successful attack made in company with the  sloop on two merchantmen, lying for protection under the batteries at Barcelona, on the coast of Caraccas. Having assumed, 18 Sept. 1805, the acting-command of the 18, Capt. Campbell, in the spring of 1806, had the good fortune, after a long chase, to capture the Leander, of 22 guns and 220 men, with General Miranda on board, returning from a vain endeavour to rear the standard of independence in South America. In the second and equally impropitious attempt which Miranda, owing to the assistance of Sir Alex. Cochrane, was induced to make, Capt. Campbell, as the Naval Commander-in-Chief of the expedition, acquitted himself of his responsible charge with all the accustomed gallantry and judgment of a British officer. He subsequently, for his general good conduct and attention to the interests of Trinidad, received the public thanks of the Governor, Council, and merchants; but, in consequence of some mismanagement at head-quarters, he does not appear to have been officially promoted until confirmed, 4 May, 1807, in the command of the 16, to which sloop he had been appointed on 30 of the preceding Jan. On 16 Oct. following he was unfortunately wrecked, and lost 12 of his crew, in a hurricane off the island of Margarita, a disaster, however, of which a subsequent court-martial most honourably acquitted him. Capt. Campbell’s ensuing appointments were – 13 Sept. 1809, to 16, in which he convoyed two ships to the West Indies – 29 April, 1810, by exchange, to the  sloop, on the latter station – and, 22 Sept. 1810, to the  18, employed successively in defending the trade of Trinidad, conveying a mail and some specie from Jamaica to England, escorting various fleets of merchantmen, and protecting the fisheries on the coast of Labrador and the north shores of Newfoundland. He attained Post-rank 1 Aug. 1811, but did not leave the until 28 May, 1814. He afterwards, from 1822 to 1832, officiated as an Inspecting-Commander in the Coast Guard; and on 1 Oct. 1846, was made a Flag officer.

Rear-Admiral Campbell, who is Deputy-Lieutenant for Argyle, married, first, in 1808, Anne Irvin, daughter of the late Rear-Admiral Sir Chas. Douglas, Bart., by whom, who died in 1815, he had, with two daughters, a son, the present ; and, secondly, 19 Aug. 1819, Isabella, daughter of John Campbell, Esq., of Craigmore, co. Argyle, by whom he has issue seven sons and four daughters. – Messrs. Ommanney.

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is son of Lieut.-General Sir Colin Campbell, K.C.B., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Ceylon, an officer who distinguished himself in the Peninsula and at Waterloo; and brother of the late gallant Capt. Arthur Wellington Campbell, one of the Sutlej heroes, who fell by a cannon-shot on 21 Dec. 1845, while acting as Aide-de-camp to Major-General Sir H. Smith.

This officer entered the Navy in 1829; served for two years and a half in the Mediterranean; and was subsequently employed for three years on the coast of Africa, whither, after having been sent home for the restoration of his health, in consequence of an attack of coast fever, he ultimately returned. As a Lieutenant, to which rank he was promoted 11 May, 1837, Mr. Campbell’s appointments, we find, were – 2 Sept. 1837, to the 18, Capt. Robt. Craigie, also on the African station – 28 Jan. 1840, as Additional-Lieutenant; to the 50, flag-ship of Sir Thos. Harvey in North America and the West Indies – 7 March, 1841, as Senior, to the 26, Capt. Christopher Wyvill, on the same station – 11 Feb. 1842, as Additional, to the  72, flag-ship in the East Indies of Sir Wm. Parker – and, 25 Aug. and 17 Nov. 1842, to the 16, Capt. Hon. Geo. Fowler Hastings, and, again as First-Lieutenant, to the 36, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads, in which ship he returned to England and was paid off in the summer of 1845. Since the date of his last promotion, 27 April, 1846, Commander Campbell has been unemployed. – Collier and Snee.

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entered the Navy, 31 Dec. 1804, as Midshipman, on board the 74, Capt. Hon. Alan Hyde Gardner, employed off Ferrol, and – with the exception of two short intervals in the years 1806 and 1812, when we find him attached to the  74, Capt. Fulteney Malcolm, and  20, Capt. Wm. Stewart – served from 31 Aug. 1805, to 31 Dec. 1812, with Capt. Patrick Campbell, in and  frigates, and  74, on the Mediterranean station, the last three years and a half as Master’s Mate. On 1 Jan. 1813, he joined the 120, flagship of Sir Edw. Pellew on the same station, where he witnessed, 5 Feb. 1813, and, as Acting-Lieutenant, 13 Nov. 1814, two partial actions with the French fleet out of Toulon. Mr. Campbell, whose appointment to the was confirmed on 5 April in the latter year, removed, 10 June following, to the  74, Capt. Joseph Pearce, lying at Portsmouth, and was placed on half-pay on 30 of the same month. He has not since been afloat.

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is youngest son of the first Lord Cawdor, by Lady Caroline Howard, eldest daughter of Frederick, fifth Earl of Carlisle; brother of the present Earl Cawdor, who was so created 24 Sept. 1827; and nephew of the late Admiral Sir Geo. Campbell, G.C.B., who died 28 Jan. 1821.

This officer entered the Navy, 7 April, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. 