Patrick Campbell

Patrick Campbell (* 1779 in Duntroon , Scotland ; † 1857 ) was a British military and diplomat .

His father, Neil Campbell (1736–1791) and his two older brothers, James Campbell (1773–1799) and Neil Campbell (1776–1827) were officers in the British Army .

Patrick Campbell began his military career under Ralph Abercromby in the Caribbean . In 1800 he became Brigade Major of the Royal Artillery in Gibraltar and achieved the rank of British Major-General . In 1809, during the Napoleonic Wars on the Iberian Peninsula , he joined the Ejército de Tierra as a war volunteer and was used in the Battle of Talavera . In 1811 he was given command of a light infantry regiment. He was in the order of Charles III. and accepted the Ferdinand order . His last Spanish military rank was teniente coronel . In 1823 he joined the British Foreign Service. That same year he was with James Henderson and John Potter Hamilton (Engl. As commissioner commissioner ) in the newly established State of Colombia sent. Henderson served after the conclusion of a friendship treaty between Great Britain and Colombia (English Treaty of Amity ) until 1829 as consul general . Hamilton and Campbell acted as British ambassadors. On December 29, 1826, Campbell was appointed Secretary of the Embassy in Colombia.

On January 7, 1833 he was appointed to the British Consul General in Egypt and held this office until 1841. On August 13, 1841 he was retired . Richard William Howard Vyse named a chamber discovered during the exploration of the Great Pyramid after Patrick Campbell, who was involved in the financing of the excavations.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ John Poter Hamilton: Travels through the interior provinces of Colombia, Volume 1. London, the 1827th
2. ↑ Frederick Arthur Crisp: Visitation of England and Wales . Grove Park Press, London, 1913
3. ^ The Parliamentary debates from the year 1803 to the present time. Volume XIV, column 116.
4. ^ Rainer Vollkommer: New great moments of archeology. Publishing house CHBeck, 2006.

predecessor	Office	successor
John Potter Hamilton	British Prime Minister in Colombia 1826	Alexander Cockburn
John Barker	British Consul General in Egypt 1833–1839	George Lloyd Hodges