Sir John Moore into Spain and the retreat to Corunna. On 1 April 1813 Campbell was promoted major, and again accompanied his regiment to the Peninsula, and after the battle of Vittoria, where the colonel was severely wounded, he succeeded to the command of the regiment. The 6th regiment formed part of Barnes's brigade of the 7th division, and after bearing its share in the battle of the Pyrenees or Sorauren performed its greatest feat at Echalar on 2 Aug., when it defeated Clausel's division, more than six thousand strong (Napier, Peninsular War, bk. xxi. chap. v. v. 247 of the last revised edition). Campbell was severely wounded in this combat, and strongly recommended for promotion, and was accordingly promoted lieutenant-colonel by brevet on 26 Aug. 1813. At the end of the war he received a gold medal for the battle of the Pyrenees, and was made a C.B., and on 22 May 1815 was created a baronet in recognition of the important services rendered by his father, who had died in 1814, with remainder to the heirs of Lieutenant-general Colin Campbell. He rejoined his regiment in 1815, and commanded it at the battle of Waterloo, and went on half-pay in 1816. In 1828 he was appointed deputy quartermaster-general in Ireland, a post which he held until his promotion to the rank of major-general in 1841, when he received the command of the Athlone district. In 1848 Campbell was appointed colonel of the 3rd West India regiment, and he died at Kingstown on 25 Jan. 1849.
[Royal Military Calendar; Hart's Army List; Gent. Mag. March 1849.]
CAMPBELL, HARRIETTE (1817–1841), novelist, daughter of Robert Campbell, was born at Stirling in 1817 (Literary Gazette, 1841, p. 170). She is said to have known many English, French, and Italian authors by her twelfth year (ib.) Her first published articles were ‘Legends of the Lochs and Glens,’ which appeared in ‘Bentley's Miscellany’ (ib.); other papers of hers appeared in the ‘Monthly Magazine.’ Her first novel, ‘The Only Daughter,’ finished in 1837, when she was twenty, was published in 1839. It was favourably received. Another novel, ‘The Cardinal Virtues, or Morals and Manners connected,’ was published in 1841, 2 vols. But her health broke down; she fell ill, and was taken to the continent for the winter. A third novel, ‘Katherine Randolph, or Self-Devotion,’ was written by Miss Campbell during her stay abroad; but she had a fresh attack of illness there, and died on 15 Feb. 1841, aged 23.
‘Katherine Randolph, or Self-Devotion,’ was published in 1842, with a preface by Mr. G. R. Gleig; and ‘The Only Daughter’ was reissued under the same editorship in the ‘Railway Library’ as late as 1859.
[Literary Gazette, 1841, p. 170; Gent. Mag. 1841, p. 544.]
CAMPBELL, HUGH, third Earl of Loudoun (d. 1731), was grandson of John, first earl of Loudoun [q. v.], and eldest son of James, second earl, by his wife, Lady Margaret Montgomery, second daughter of Hugh, seventh earl of Eglintoun. In 1684 he succeeded his father, who died at Leyden, where he had retired in consequence of his disapproval of the government of Charles II. The third earl took his seat in parliament on 8 Sept. 1696, and was sworn a privy councillor in April 1697. Through the influence of Archibald, tenth earl, afterwards first duke of Argyll [q. v.], Loudoun was appointed extraordinary lord of session, and took his seat on 7 Feb. 1699. Argyll, in a letter to Secretary Carstares, dated Edinburgh, 27 Sept. 1698, thus recommended Loudoun: ‘Pray, let not E. Melvill's unreasonable pretending to the vacant gown make you slack as to E. Loudon, who, though a younger man, is an older and more noted presbyterian than he. Loudon has it in his blood, and it is a mettled young fellow, that those who recommend him will gain honour by him. He has a deal of natural parts and sharpness, a good stock of clergy, and by being in business he will daily improve’ (Carstares State Papers, 1774, p. 451). He retained this office until his death, ‘in which post,’ says Lockhart (Memoirs of Scotland, 1714, p. 99), ‘he behaved to all men's satisfaction, studying to understand the laws and constitution of the kingdom, and determine accordingly.’ After the accession of Queen Anne, he was again sworn a member of the Scotch privy council, and from 1702–4 served as one of the commissioners of the Scotch treasury. In 1704 he was appointed joint-secretary of state with William, third marquis of Annandale, and afterwards with John, sixth earl of Mar. In March 1706 he was made one of the Scotch commissioners for the union, and on 10 Aug. in the following year was invested at Windsor with the order of the Thistle. On 7 Feb. 1707 Loudoun resigned his titles into the hands of the queen, which, on the following day, were regranted to him and the heirs male of his body, with other remainders over in default. The office of secretary for state for Scotland being temporarily suspended (it was not abolished until 1746), he was appointed keeper of the great seal of Scotland during the queen's pleasure on
