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{{Short description|Scottish army officer in the East India Company and writer}}
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| name = Robert Calder Campbell
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| birth_date = 1798
| death_date = 13 May 1857 (aged 58/59)
| birth_place = [[Ardersier]], Scotland
| death_place = [[London]], England
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| allegiance = [[File:Flag of the British East India Company (1801).svg|22x20px|border]] [[East India Company]]
| branch = [[Madras Army]]
| serviceyears = 1818–1839
| rank = [[Major (United Kingdom)|Major]]
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[[File:Madras Army.jpg|thumb|304x304px|[[Sepoy|Sepoys]] in the Madras Army (1800s)]]
[[Major (United Kingdom)|Major]] '''Robert Calder Campbell''' (1798–1857) was a British soldier and miscellaneous writer. He was made a cadet in the East India Company's service in 1817; promoted to captain in 1826; served in Burma from 1826–7; was invalided home in 1811; settled in London; promoted to major in 1836; and retired in 1839. He published verse and prose from 1831–57.

== Life ==
Campbell was born in Scotland in 1798, the son of Rev. Pryce Campbell, the Presbyterian minister in [[Ardersier]].<ref>Fhlathúin 2016.</ref> In 1817 he obtained a cadetship in the service of the [[East India Company|British East India Company]], and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the [[Madras Army]] on 2 October 1818. Promoted to captain on 3 October 1826 during the [[First Anglo-Burmese War]], Campbell served in the 43rd regiment of Madras native infantry from 1826–7, and was decorated with the Indian war-medal for services rendered. He was invalided out of active service in 1831 and promoted to major in 1836, before retiring from the army in 1839.<ref>Chichester 1886, pp. 391–392.</ref>

Upon returning from India, Campbell was introduced by the sculptor [[Alexander Munro (sculptor)|Alexander Munro]] to [[Dante Gabriel Rossetti|Dante Gabriel]] and [[William Michael Rossetti]], with whom he became good friends. He subsequently published short stories, prose sketches and poetry in numerous periodicals and assisted with the publication of the [[The Germ (periodical)|''Germ'']] in 1850.<ref>Feldman and Robinson 1999, p. 211.</ref><ref>Hosmon 1969, p. 44.</ref><ref>''Calcutta Review'', XIX, p. xxix.</ref> Campbell contributed a sensuous love sonnet in the style of [[John Keats|Keats]].<ref>Rossetti 1901, p. 68.</ref>

Campbell died at his residence in University Street, London, on 13 May 1857. He was eulogised by the [[The Athenaeum (British magazine)|''Athenæum'']] as "a graceful writer of the minor prose and poetry of his time, and a kind-hearted scholar and gentleman."<ref>Chichester 1886, p. 392.</ref>

== Works ==
* [https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/Lays_from_the_East/buM_AQAAMAAJ?hl=en ''Lays from the East'']. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1831.
* [https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/The_Palmer_s_Last_Lesson/FaFgAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 ''The Palmer's Last Session, and Other Short Poems'']. London: Houlston & Hughes, 1838.
* ''Rough Recollections of Rambles at Home and Abroad'', Vol. [https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/_/OTYDAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwikroSf877yAhWezDgGHYrHAqkQ7_IDMAx6BAgIEAQ I], Vol. [https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/_/EzYDAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwikroSf877yAhWezDgGHYrHAqkQ7_IDMAx6BAgIEAU II], Vol. [https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/Rough_Recollections_of_Rambles_Abro%C3%A0d_a/3TUDAAAAYAAJ?hl=en III]. London: Newby, 1847.
* ''Winter Nights.'' London: Newby, 1850.
* ''The Three Trials of Loïde''. London: William Shobert, 1851.
* ''Episodes in the War-life of a Soldier, with Sketches in Prose and Verse''. London: William Skeffington, 1857.

== References ==
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== Sources ==
* Feldman, Paula R. and Daniel Robinson, eds. (1999). [https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/A_Century_of_Sonnets/JJW3xw-CYk4C?hl=en%7C%7C ''A Century of Sonnets'': ''The Romantic-Era Revival'']. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 211.
* Fhlathúin, Máire ní, ed. (2016). [https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/The_Poetry_of_British_India_1780_1905_Vo/qxDYDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=calder+campbell+Episodes+in+the+War-life+of+a+Soldier,+with+Sketches+in+Prose+and+Verse&pg=PT379&printsec=frontcover ''The Poetry of British India, 1780–1905'']. New York: Routledge.
* Hosmon, Robert Stahr (1969). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/20084798 "'The Germ' (1850) and 'The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine' (1856)"]. ''Victorian Periodicals Newsletter'', no. 4. pp. 36–47. ''JSTOR''. Accessed 19 August 2021.
* Rossetti, William Michael, ed. (1901). ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/17649/17649-h/17649-h.htm The Germ: being a facsimile reprint of the literary organ of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood]''. London. pp. 8, 12, 18, 68.
*''The Calcutta Review'', [https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/Calcutta_Review/ai8WAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 Vol. XXIX], July–December 1857. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co., 1857. pp. xxviii–xxx.
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