Colin Campbell (British Army officer, born 1754)

Colin Campbell

Born| 1754
Died| 1814 (aged 59 or 60)
Allegiance|  United Kingdom
Service/branch| British Army
Years of service| 1771 - 1814
Rank| Lieutenant General
Battles/wars| Irish Rebellion
Peninsular War

Lieutenant General Colin Campbell (1754–1814) was Lieutenant Governor of Gibraltar.

## Military career[edit]

Campbell was commissioned into the 71st Regiment of Foot in 1771 and then transferred to the 6th Regiment of Foot in 1783.[1] In 1796 he went to Ireland and two years later fought at the Battle of Vinegar Hill.[1]

In 1810 he was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Gibraltar.[1] During the Peninsular War he insisted on keeping Gibraltar well garrisoned and also regarded Tarifa as within his command and denied it to the French invading force there.[1]

His son Guy Campbell was created a Baronet in his honour in 1815.

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c d Colin Campbell at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Government offices

Preceded by

Sir John Cradock

|  Governor of Gibraltar
(acting)
1809-1814  | Succeeded by

Sir George Don

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Governors of Gibraltar

Spanish period (1462–1704)

* De Salinas

Habsburg occupation (1704)

* Hesse-Darmstadt
* Nugent
* Shrimpton
* Elliott
* Stanwix

Treaty of Utrecht (1713)

* Portmore
* Kane
* Clayton
* Sabine
* Hargrave
* Bland
* Fowke
* Tyrawley
* Home
* Cornwallis
* Irwin
* Boyd
* Eliott
* Boyd
* Rainsford
* O'Hara
* Kent and Strathearn
* Fox
* Dalrymple
* Cradock
* Campbell
* Don
* Chatham
* Don

Crown colony (1830)

* Houston
* Woodford
* Wilson
* Gardiner
* Fergusson
* Codrington
* Airey
* Williams
* Napier of Magdala
* Adye
* Hardinge
* Smyth
* Nicholson
* Biddulph
* White
* Forestier-Walker
* Hunter
* Miles
* Smith-Dorrien
* Monro
* Godley
* Harington
* Ironside
* Liddell
* Gort
* Mason-Macfarlane
* Eastwood
* Anderson
* MacMillan
* Redman
* Keightley
* Ward
* Lathbury
* Begg
* Grandy
* Jackson

British dependent territory (1981)

* Williams
* Terry
* Reffell
* Chapple
* White
* Luce
* Durie

British Overseas Territory (2002)

* Richards
* Fulton
* Johns
* Dutton
* Davis
* Steel

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