John Campbell, 2nd Baronet (of Carrick Buoy)
Sir John Nicoll Robert Campbell, 2nd Baronet KCH (born May 25, 1799 in Bimlipatam, Madras , † 1870 ) was a British diplomat .
Life
He was the eldest son of Elizabeth Pasley (1777-1842) and Robert Campbell (1771-1858).
In 1826 he was captain of the 16th EIC Light Cavalry in Madras when he was sent to the embassy in Tehran under John Macdonald Kinneir as second class secretary .
From 1826 to 1828 he was the liaison officer from MacDonald to Abbas Mirza , commander in chief of the Persian army , in the Russo-Persian War and mediated peace negotiations with the Russian tsar.
Contemporary sources describe him as vain and in a bad mood. As John Macdonald Kinneir died in June 1830 Campbell was chargé d'affaires . His father became Chairman of the Directors of the EIC in 1831 and was given the hereditary title of Baronet , of Carrick Buoy in the County of Donegal , on September 30, 1831 .
With his consent, a British military unit in the Iranian Army took part in an expedition led by Abbas Mirza to subjugate Khorasan in 1831 .
John Campbell was knighted as Knight Commander of the Hanoverian Guelphic Order on December 22, 1832 , and in 1834 he was appointed Consul General and Plenipotentiary by the British Government. In 1834 he tried to negotiate with the Persian side to open trade routes to Trabzon and to conclude a corresponding trade agreement. The British side demanded the stationing of consuls in Persia for this trade agreement, which is why the negotiations failed.
In 1831 he expressed doubts about the Doctrine of The Great Game that Russia threatened British India . In 1832 he accepted the notion of the Russian threat and that Afghanistan must be strengthened as a buffer state .
Abbas Mirza was replaced by Mohammed Shah as commander in chief in Tabriz . When Fath Ali Shah died on October 23, 1834, a British detachment under Campbell of Tabriz marched to Tehran with this force, which had been recruited for 30,000 pounds sterling, and thus secured the succession of Mohammed Shah in order to forestall similar offers from the Russians.
When his father died on February 28, 1858, he inherited his title of nobility as 2nd baronet.
From his marriage to Grace Elizabeth Bainbridge on March 25, 1828, he had two daughters and two sons, of whom only the younger son Gilbert Edward Campbell (1838-1899) survived and in 1870 became the 3rd baronet.
Individual evidence
- ^ The London Gazette : 19005, 2750 , December 18, 1832.
- ↑ [1] ( Encyclopædia Iranica )
- ^ Edmund Lodge, The peerage and baronetage of the British empire as at present p. 672
Web links
- Sir John Nicholl Robert Campbell, 2nd Bt. On thepeerage.com
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| John Macdonald Kinneir |
British ambassador to Tehran 1830–1835 |
Henry Ellis |
| Robert Campbell | Baronet, of Carrick Buoy 1858-1870 |
Gilbert Campbell |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Campbell, John, 2nd Baronet |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Campbell, John Nicoll Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British ambassador |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 25, 1799 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bimlipatam, Madras |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1870 |