Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Campbell, Robert Calder

1904 Errata appended.

1340298Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 08 — Campbell, Robert Calder1886Henry Manners Chichester

CAMPBELL, ROBERT CALDER (1798–1857), major, H.E.I.C.S., miscellaneous writer, son of a presbyterian minister, was born in Scotland in 1798. In 1817 he obtained a cadetship in the East India Company's service, and became a lieutenant on the Madras establishment on 2 Oct. 1818 and captain on 3 Oct. 1826. He served with the 43rd Madras native infantry in the Burmese war of 1826–7, for which he received the Indian war-medal. He was invalided in 1831, and subsequently was promoted to a majority in 1836. Campbell, who was described by the ‘Athenæum’ as ‘a graceful writer of the minor prose and poetry of his time, and a kind-hearted scholar and gentleman,’ was author of:

  1. ‘Lays from the East,’ London, 1831.
  2. ‘Rough Recollections of Rambles at Home and Abroad,’ London, 1847.
  3. ‘The Palmer's Last Lesson, and other Poems,’ London, 1848.
  4. ‘Winter Nights,’ London, 1850.
  5. ‘The Three Trials of Loide,’ London, 1851.
  6. ‘Episodes in the War-life of a Soldier, with Sketches in Prose and Verse,’ London, 1857, some of these containing reprints from magazines, to which Campbell was a frequent contributor.

He died at his residence in University Street, London, on 13 May 1857.

[Dodswell and Miles's Lists Indian Army; Athenæum, 23 May 1857, p. 664, also literary notices in preceding vols.; English Cat. of Books, 1835–60; Gent. Mag. 3rd series (ii.) p. 742.]

Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.51
N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line

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