Henry Dundas Campbell

Colonel Henry Dundas Campbell (8 July 1798 – 1 April 1872) was a British professional soldier, Governor of Sierra Leone from 1835 to 1837.[1] Campbell's mona monkey (Cercopithecus campbelli) was named after him, in 1838, by George Robert Waterhouse.[2]

Biography

Campbell was born in Cape Town, Cape Colony[3] to Admiral Donald Campbell[4] (died 1819, as Captain of HMS Salisbury), and his wife Margaret Harriet (who died 1831, at Hampton House, Henry Dundas Campbell's residence).[5][6] He was a lieutenant in the 63rd Foot, in 1820.[7] It is said that he was an officer in the 8th Dragoons, when in 1822 he had his portrait painted by William Beechey;[8][9] but his exchange into the Dragoons was dated 3 July 1823.[10] In 1827 he was an unattached major on half pay.[11]

Campbell was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Sierra Leone in 1834.[12] He then replaced Octavius Temple as Governor.[13] He placed emphasis on education, including female education.[14] He went to Magbele on the Rokel River to negotiate a commercial treaty with Dala Modu Dumbuya.[15] This mission took on the nature of a peace conference, with a number of groups attending who wanted an end to ongoing threats of instability in the region.[16] In 1838 he sent the Zoological Society the type specimen of the primate named after him.[17]

During Ralph Randolph Gurley's visit to London in 1840, Campbell spoke in support of the American Colonization Society at the Egyptian Hall.[18] In the same year he resolved a public quarrel between Sir Duncan Macdougall, a friend, and the Marquess of Londonderry.[19][20]

In later life, Campbell became a director of the British Empire Life Assurance Company, founded 1839.[21] He was also a director of the Direct Western Railway.[22] In the 1847 general election, he was a candidate for Christchurch, held by Edward Harris, as a Liberal and free trader.[23][24] He died in Peckham on 1 April 1872, at age 74.[1]

Family

Campbell married in 1827 Anne Marie "Fanny" Davis (died 16 January 1880), sister of Sir John Francis Davis, 1st Baronet, and daughter of Samuel Davis. Their daughter Harriet Henrietta Georgina married Alexander Shank, a judge in India;[25] and their daughter Frances Eliza married Oswald James Augustus Grimston.[26][27][28]

References

• Hillard von Thiessen; Christian Windler (2010). Akteure der Aussenbeziehungen: Netzwerke und Interkulturalität im historischen Wandel (in German). Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar. pp. 364–. ISBN 978-3-412-20563-8.

Notes

1. The British Almanac of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, for the Year of Our Lord 1873. Company of Stationers. 1872. p. 284.
2. "Campbell's monkey (Cercopithecus campbelli), Glasgow Museums - Collections Navigator". Retrieved 23 May 2016.
3. 1871 England Census
4. London, England, Freedom of the City Admission Papers, 1681-1930
5. Henry Press Wright (23 February 2012). The Story of the 'Domus Dei' of Portsmouth: Commonly Called the Royal Garrison Church. Cambridge University Press. p. 109. ISBN 978-1-108-04462-2.
6. The Gentleman's Magazine. R. Newton. 1832. p. 189.
7. A List of the Officers of the Army and of the Corps of Royal Marines. 1821. p. 231.
8. Roberts, William (1907). "Sir William Beechey, R.A". Internet Archive. London: Duckworth. p. 167. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
9. Great Britain. War Office (1824). A List of the Officers of the Army and of the Corps of Royal Marines. p. 135.
10. The London Gazette. T. Neuman. 1823. p. ix.
11. Great Britain. War Office (1827). A List of the Officers of the Army and of the Corps of Royal Marines. p. 56.
12. The United Service Magazine. H. Colburn. 1834. p. 573.
13. The United Service Magazine. 1835. p. 422.
14. Bronwen Everill (15 December 2012). Abolition and Empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 224. ISBN 978-1-137-02867-9.
15. Bronwen Everill (15 December 2012). Abolition and Empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 86. ISBN 978-1-137-29181-3.
16. Alexander Keese (30 November 2015). Ethnicity and the Colonial State: Finding and Representing Group Identifications in a Coastal West African and Global Perspective (1850–1960). Brill. p. 174. ISBN 978-90-04-30735-3.
17. Bo Beolens; Michael Watkins; Michael Grayson (7 October 2009). The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. JHU Press. p. 71. ISBN 978-0-8018-9533-3.
18. Ralph Randolph Gurley (1841). Letter to the Hon. Henry Clay, President of the American Colonization Society, and Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Chairman of the General Committee of the African Civilization Society, on the Colonization and Civilization of Africa: With Other Documents on the Same Subject. Wiley and Putnam. p. v.
19. The Spectator. F. C. Westley. 1840. p. 224.
20. "The Marquis of Londonderry and Sir Duncan Macdougal". Morning Post. 2 March 1840. p. 2. Retrieved 25 May 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
21. Cornelius Walford (1871). The Insurance Cyclopaedia. p. 373.
22. The British and Foreign Railway Review. Effingham Wilson. 1845. p. 68.
23. "Christchurch". Hampshire Telegraph. 10 July 1847. p. 4. Retrieved 25 May 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
24. "Election Movements". The Examiner. 17 July 1847. p. 10. Retrieved 25 May 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
25. "Marriages". The London Evening Standard. 7 April 1847. p. 4. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
26. The Marquis of Ruvigny and Ranieval (1 May 2013). The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: The Mortimer-Percy Volume. Heritage Books. p. 196. ISBN 978-0-7884-1872-3.
27. Edward Walford (1869). The County Families of the United Kingdom Or, Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland. R. Hardwicke. p. 861.
28. Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1868. p. 300.