Hon. Colin Campbell, Esq.

General Notes: In an eMail, dated August the 2nd, 2009, Peter Dickson said:

Campbell, Colin, (eldest son of John Campbell) 1720, "son of John Campbell of Jamaica", Glasgow University [University matriculation no. 219]

1730, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (mathematician and astronomer) [D J Bryden, 'The Jamaican Observatories of Colin Campbell, F.R.S. and Alexander Macfarlane, F.R.S.', Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Apr., 1970), pp. 261-272]

1741, "The draught of a representation to their Excellencies the Lords Justices, recommending Colin Campbell Esq., to be of the Council of Jamaica, in the room of Thomas Edlin, Esq., was agreed to, transcribed and signed. Thursday, July 30 1741." [British History On Line, Journals of the Board of Trade and Plantations: January 1735 - December 1741, Volume 7, pp. 390-396]

1748, September, Colin Campbell's will written in London, stated that he was married in Jamaica, named the three children above and son Colin [NA PROB 11/793].

1748, Jamaica, Order of Council, dated the 30th of July, 1748, "proposing Charles Dawes, Esquire, to be one of the Council of Jamaica, in the room of Colin Campbell, Esquire, who has been several years absent from that Island." [British History On Line, Journals of the Board of Trade and Plantations: January 1742 - December 1749, Volume 8 , pp. 335-342]

1752, "Letters from Jamaica, by way of Bristol, advise of the death of the Hon. Colin Campbell Esq. at Kingston on 26 January." ['London evening Post', 14 April 1752]