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 his V.C. : commanded the King's Own Borderers, 1881–1883 : Chief of the Intelligence Department, 1883–6 : Commandant of Royal Military College, Sandhurst, 1886–8 : General.

CAMERON, CHARLES HAY (1795–1880)

Barrister : son of Charles Cameron : born on Feb. 11, 1795 : called to the bar from Lincoln's Inn, 1820 : was a Commissioner on judicial affairs in Ceylon, and the poor-laws, in 1831–3 : after the statute of 1833, he was appointed Member of the Law Commission and went to India in 1835 : co-operated in law-making and codification with Macaulay, the Legal Member : was in 1843 himself Legal Member of the Supreme Council till 1848 : and President of the Council of Education : retired in 1848 : went to Ceylon in 1875, and died there. May 8, 1880.

CAMERON, GEORGE POWLETT (1806–1882)

Son of Captain Robert Cameron, R.N. : entered the E. I. Co.'s military service, 1821 : served in the S. Mahratta country, 1824–5 : served in Portugal, 1832–3 : sent to Constantinople and Persia : served in the Persian Army, 1836–8 : commanding at Tabriz : visited Circassia : C.B. : Political Agent with the Nawab of Arcot, in Madras, 1842 : in command in the Nilgiri Hills, 1855 : retired, 1858 : wrote an account of his travels, 1845, and The Romance of Military Life, 1853 : died Feb. 12, 1882.

CAMERON, JOHN ALEXANDER ( ? –1885)

Went out to India in a merchant's house : acted as Editor of the Bombay Gazette : was a special war-correspondent in the Afghan war, 1878, on the Kandahar side : went out to the battle-field of Maiwand, July 27, 1880 : was similarly employed as correspondent in Egypt, Madagascar, Tonquin, the Nile expedition, from 1880–5 : killed in the fighting after Abuklea on Jan. 18, 1885 : a tablet put up to his memory in St. Paul's Cathedral.

CAMPBELL, SIR ARCHIBALD ( ? –1791)

Maj-General and K.B. : Captain in 1758, wounded at Quebec; as Colonel, captured Savannah in 1778 : made Governor of Jamaica : appointed Governor of Madras, April 6, 1786 : and in the same year C. in C. During his period of rule he attempted a settlement of the vexed Question concerning the revenues of the Carnatic : the treaty of 1787 was his work. Ill-health caused him to resign in 1789 : he died 1791 : and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

CAMPBELL, SIR ARCHIBALD, BARONET (1769–1843)

Son of Captain A. Campbell : born March 12, 1769 : entered the Army, 1787 : went to Bombay, 1788, and served under Sir Robert Abercromby, 1790–2 : was at Seringapatam, 1792 : at Cochin, 1795, and the defeat of the Dutch in Ceylon, 1796 : was at Seedaseer and the final siege of Seringapatam, 1799 : served in Portugal and under Sir John Moore, 1808 : commanded a Portuguese regt., 1810 : was Brig-General with the Portuguese, 1811 : knighted, 1814 : K.C.B. 1815 : was Portuguese Maj-General, 1816, in command at Lisbon : went to India again with his regiment, 1821 : commanded in the first Burmese war, 1824–6, and took Rangoon and Prome, and, marching on Ava, made the Treaty of Yandaboo in Feb., 1826 : G.C.B. : governed the ceded Provinces still 1829, when he returned to England : Baronet, 1831 : Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick, 1831–7 : Lt-General, 1838 : was unable through ill-health to accept the appointment of C. in C. Bombay in 1839 : Colonel of the 62nd regt., 1840 : died Oct. 6, 1843.

CAMPBELL, CHARLES HAY ( ? –1832)

Major, son of William Campbell : entered the Bengal Artillery in 1805 : served under Lord Lake : was, in 1801, Adjutant and Quarter-master of Artillery : held other appointments on the General Staff of the Army : Deputy Secretary in the Military Department and in charge of the Cossipur Gun Factory : wrote, in the British Indian Military Repository, papers on professional subjects, including the History of Sieges in Bengal : he died May 19. 1832.

CAMPBELL, SIR COLIN (1776–1847)

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