Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Campbell, Robert Calder
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:
- ‘Lays from the East,’ London, 1831.
- ‘Rough Recollections of Rambles at Home and Abroad,’ London, 1847.
- ‘The Palmer's Last Lesson, and other Poems,’ London, 1848.
- ‘Winter Nights,’ London, 1850.
- ‘The Three Trials of Loide,’ London, 1851.
- ‘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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