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 Jamaica : Midshipman on an East Indiaman, 1793 : joined the militia, 1795; the Army, 1799 : went to India in 1801–2 : was under Arthur Wellesley at Ahmadnagar, Assaye and Argaum : A.D.C. to Lord Wellesley, and returned with him to England, 1805 : served in Hanover, Denmark, in Portugal, the Peninsula : was at a number of engagements, and was A.Q.M.G : K.C.B., in 1814 : was at Waterloo : Maj-General, 1825 : Lt-Governor of Nova Scotia, 1833 : Governor of Ceylon, 1839–47 : died in England, June 13, 1847

CAMPBELL, DONALD (1751–1804)

Captain of a Cavalry regt. in the service of the Nawab of the Carnatic : at the age of 30 he made a journey to India and published an account of it, 1795 : travelled via Venice, Trieste, Zante, Alexandria, Cyprus, Aleppo, Badgad, Russia and Bushire : by sea to Bombay and Goa : shipwrecked on the coast on his way to Madras : captured by Hyder All's soldiers and imprisoned at Hydernagar, in company with one Hall, to whom he was chained. Hall died in prison, and his gaoler refused to remove the corpse for several days : eventually, on General Matthew's approach, he was released in order to negotiate with him on behalf of Hyat Singh, Hyder's General : with despatches for the Governments of Bombay and Madras, he proceeded by sea to Anjengo, travelled by land through Travancore, Tinnevelly, Madura, Trichinopoly, Tanjore to Negapatam, and Madras : with Lord Macartney's permission, went on to Calcutta and, on behalf of Hyat Singh, negotiated with Warren Hastings : returned overland to Madras and Anjengo : thence by sea to Bombay : again visited Madras and China, and returned to England in 1785, after four years' absence : died June 5, 1804.

CAMPBELL, SIR EDWARD FITZGERALD, BARONET (1822–1882)

Son of Maj-General Sir Guy Campbell, Bart. C.B., born Oct. 25, 1822 : educated at Sandhurst : entered the Army in the 60th Rifles, 1841 : Lt-Colonel, 1870 : retired 1872 : served with distinction in the Panjab campaign of 1848–9, was at the siege of Multan and at Gujarat : in 1849 was A.D.C, to the C. in C, Sir C. Napier : was at the siege of Delhi in 1857 : Military Secretary to Lord Canning when Governor-General, 1857–61 : was Assistant Inspector of Volunteers, 1864 : died Nov. 23, 1882.

CAMPBELL, SIR GEORGE (1824–1892)

I.C.S. : son of Sir G. Campbell of Edenwood, of the E.I. Co.'s Medical service : born in 1824 : educated at the Edinburgh New Academy, St. Andrew's, Madras College, and the University, Haileybury : went to India, 1842 : served in the N.W.P. and Cis-Satlaj States : and in 1849 in the Panjab after the annexation, which he had advocated in the Mofussilite newspaper. While on furlough he was called to the bar from the Inner Temple, 1854, and wrote Modern India, 1852 : in 1855, he assisted J. R. Colvin in the government of the N.W.P., and became Commissioner of the Cis-Satlaj States : was engaged in the mutiny of 1857,about Delhi, Agra, Cawpur, Lucknow : was provisional Civil Commissioner : accidentally captured three guns : wrote letters on the mutiny to the Times, and an official account of it for Lord Canning : was second Civil Commissioner for Oudh : appointed Judge of the High Court, Calcutta, 1862 : was head of the Commission on the Orissa famine of 1866–7 : Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces in Nov., 1867 : Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal from March, 1871, to April, 1874, when, on account of ill-health, he retired, having commenced the relief operations against the Bengal famine of 1873–4. His rule in Bengal was very energetic, being intended to rouse the Province from its alleged lethargy. He passed the District Road Cess Act, and gave a great impetus to Education, especially primary : K.C.S.I. in 1873 : M.P. for Kirkcaldy 1875–92, but was not successful as a politician : died at Cairo, Feb. 18, 1892 : wrote several works : the chief being The Ethnology of India, The Capital of India, Tenure of Land in India, The Eastern Question, besides papers on Ethnology and languages and land questions : he was D.C.L. of Oxford, 1870. His autobiography was, after his death, edited by Sir (q.v.)

CAMPBELL, SIR JAMES MACNABB (1847–1903)

I.C.S. : born 1847 : son of Rev. J. M. Campbell, D.D. : educated at Glasgow