He married May 20, 1813, Eliza Luttrell, daughter of Edmund Joshua Moriarty, Esq. by Lady Lucy, daughter of Simon, first Earl of Carhampton. His next brother, Lieutenant-Colonel George Lionel Dawson, acted as Quarter-Master-General to the Duke of Wellington, and was wounded at the battle of Waterloo.
Agent.– Messrs. Cooke, Halford, and Son.
DONALD CAMPBELL, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1811.]
Eldest son of the late Colin Campbell, of Auchendoun, in Argyllshire, Esq. and cousin-german to the present General Duncan Campbell, of Loch-Nell, in Argyllshire.
This officer was born in 1778; and he first embarked, in 1791, as a midshipman on board the Assistance 50, commanded by the late Lord Cranstoun, under whom he served until the close of the Russian armament, when we find him joining the Otter brig, Captain James Hardy.
At the commencement of the French revolutionary war, Mr. Campbell proceeded to the West Indies, in the Scorpion sloop. Captain Thomas Western. Between Aug. 2, 1794, and Aug. 7, 1795, that vessel captured la Guillotine French privateer, of 10 guns; la Victoire 18, and four others of inferior force. She was also very successful in recapturing British merchantmen.
Early in 1796 Mr. Campbell was removed to the Swiftsure 74, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral William Parker, commander-in-chief at Jamaica, in which ship he was present at the unsuccessful attack upon Leogane, St. Domingo, March 22, 1796[1].
- ↑ A division of British and Colonial troops from the garrison at Port-au-Prince landed near Leogane on the 21st Mar., under the cover of several frigates and sloops. During the greatest part of the 22d a very heavy fire was maintained from the two-deckers of the squadron; but no impression whatever having been made by them, and the place appearing much stronger than it had been represented, the forces were judged inadequate to the enterprise, and the troops, stores, guns, &c. were therefore re-embarked. On this occasion the army lost a few men, and the squadron had several killed and wounded. Shortly after this failure, Rear-Admiral Parker was attacked with the yellow fever, which obliged him immediately to sail for England.
