Sir James Campbell, 1st Baronet
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Commander-in-Chief of the Ionian Islands, Adjutant-General to the British Forces and Heritable Usher of the White Rod for Scotland. He is buried at Westminster Abbey
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Birth
The eldest son of
Governor of Madras who purchased the Inverneill estate in 1773. His mother, Jean (died 1805), was the daughter of John Campbell of Askomil, Argyll, of the Ballachlavan Campbells.[1] His sister, Jane Campbell
, was the first woman to petition a private bill get a full divorce in the United Kingdom.
Military career
Campbell was commissioned into the
Tippoo Sahib
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In March 1794, he was promoted to
Anglo-Russian invasion of Naples. He acted in that capacity from 1805 to 1813, and was only absent on the occasion of the Battle of Maida, winning the confidence of all the generals who held command in Sicily
.
Governor of the Ionian Islands
In 1810,
Straits of Messina, placing one battalion on the cliffs while the others were fast disembarking. Campbell, by a rapid attack with the Royal Scots Fusiliers
, repelled the disembarking battalions and forced those already landed to surrender. Forty three officers and over eight hundred men were taken prisoners, with a loss to the British of only three men wounded.
During his tenure of office, in 1808, he had been promoted
Lord High Commissioner. A French authority stated that Campbell acted in a most despotic way as governor, saying that he abolished the university, the academy
and the press established by the French.
He returned to England in 1816. The following year he was made Knight Grand Cross of Hanover of the Royal Guelphic Order. On 3 October 1818, he was created the 1st (and last) Baronet of Inverneill. He was a Commander of the Order of Saint Ferdinand and of Merit.
Private life
Following the death of his father in 1805, he became the 10th Chief of Clan Tearlach and inherited the position of
Fanny Burney as "extremely pretty and reckoned very ingenious". Some of the poems of Agnes' mother, Anne Home were used to the music of Joseph Haydn
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Campbell was very close to his mother-in-law,
baronetcy
became extinct and the Inverneill estate was passed to his brothers, the 4th and 5th lairds of Inverneill.
See also
References
- Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1886). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 8. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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