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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Latest portrait: Who is the sitter?
« on: Wednesday 17 March 21 02:44 GMT (UK) »
This is a great portrait and a great find - congratulations to the buyer! I don't have the answer to the sitter's origin, only a clue - might he be the naval Captain Colin Campbell referred to in the following obituary of Captain Robert Campbell of the Bombay Army, published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, February 1821 (vol. 8, p. 601)? This Colin Campbell is NOT the Rear-Admiral Colin Campbell of Ardpatrick mentioned earlier in this thread; Rear-Admiral Colin was of the well-documented and wealthy Shawfield Campbells. The sitter is also emphatically NOT Field-Marshall Colin Campbell, later Lord Clyde, with whom the auctioneers seem to have him confused. If the sitter is the brother of Captain Robert of the Bombay Army, his origins remain obscure. There's nothing in the public records of either Robert or the other surviving brother, Major John Campbell, indicating their parentage.
Major John Campbell settled as a planter in Jamaica (owning estates at Belgar and Lucky Hill in the parish of St Thomas in the Vale), following his war injuries. He appoints his brother, Captain Colin Campbell of the Royal Navy, as one of his executors in a will made in 1832. Major John (promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in his retirement) dies in 1835; his will is among the PCC wills available on ancestry.
I'd be delighted if any of this rings any bells which could point of the parentage of this "band of brothers".
Major John Campbell settled as a planter in Jamaica (owning estates at Belgar and Lucky Hill in the parish of St Thomas in the Vale), following his war injuries. He appoints his brother, Captain Colin Campbell of the Royal Navy, as one of his executors in a will made in 1832. Major John (promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in his retirement) dies in 1835; his will is among the PCC wills available on ancestry.
I'd be delighted if any of this rings any bells which could point of the parentage of this "band of brothers".