Dictionary of Indian Biography/Campbell, Sir Archibald
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CAMPBELL, SIR ARCHIBALD ( ? –1791)
Maj-General and K.B. : Captain in 1758, wounded at Quebec; as Colonel, captured Savannah in 1778 : made Governor of Jamaica : appointed Governor of Madras, April 6, 1786 : and in the same year C. in C. During his period of rule he attempted a settlement of the vexed Question concerning the revenues of the Carnatic : the treaty of 1787 was his work. Ill-health caused him to resign in 1789 : he died 1791 : and was buried in Westminster Abbey.