Colin Campbell

Lieutenant-General Colin Campbell (21 November 1754 – 2 April 1814) was Lieutenant Governor of Gibraltar.

Early life Campbell was born in Edinburgh on 21 November 1754. He was the son of John Campbell, First Cashier of the Royal Bank of Scotland, and Anne Carolina Campbell, herself a daughter of landowner James Campbell of Tofts.

His father was an illegitimate son of the Hon. Colin Campbell of Ardmaddie, a son of John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland by his second marriage to the former Mary Sinclair, Countess of Caithness (née Lady Mary Campbell), the widow of George Sinclair, 6th Earl of Caithness who was a daughter of Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll). In 1796 he went to Ireland and two years later fought at the Battle of Vinegar Hill.

Sir Guy Campbell, 1st Baronet (1786–1849), who married Frances Elizabeth Burgoyne in 1817. After her death in 1818, he married Pamela FitzGerald, the eldest daughter of Lord Edward FitzGerald and Pamela Syms in 1820. John Campbell (1788–1841), he was appointed Companion, Order of the Bath. William Johnson Campbell (1789–1854), who married Anna Maria Vincent, a daughter of Sir Francis Vincent, 8th Baronet, in 1817. Mary Campbell (1791–1841) After her death in 1815, he married Lady Susan Caroline Somerset, a daughter of the 6th Duke of Beaufort.

Descendants Through his son William, he was a grandfather of Mary Caroline Campbell (1820–1876), who married Andrés Avelino de Silva y Fernández de Córdoba (younger son of the 12th Duke of Híjar. Mary and William were the parents of Alfonso de Silva y Campbell, 15th Duke of Híjar.