A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Campbell, John (b)
CAMPBELL. (Commander, 1813. f-p., 18; h-p., 34.)
John Campbell (b) entered the Navy in Aug. 1795, as Midshipman, on board the Thisbe 28, Capt. John Okes Hardy, on the Halifax station, where, after witnessing the capture, 28 Aug. 1796, of l’Elisabeth French frigate, he accompanied the same officer into the Assistance 50, and, as Master’s Mate, into the St. Albans 64. On 6 Oct. 1801, he was promoted into the Sophie sloop, Capt. Geo. Burdett, in the Channel, and, on subsequently proceeding with Capt. J. O. Hardy to the West Indies in the Courageux 74, assisted at the reduction of Ste. Lucie in June, 1803. Towards the close of the latter year he joined the Bacchante 22, Capt. Chas. Dashwood, a very active cruizer on the Jamaica station, whence he returned home with convoy, as First, in the Diana frigate, Capt. Thos. Jas. Maling, early in 1808. After serving four years, first with Lord Keith, and then with Capt. Jas. Macnamara, in the Edgar 74, both at home and in the Baltic, where he beheld the embarkation from Nyeborg of the Spanish troops under the Marquis de la Romana in Aug. 1808, Mr. Campbell was with Capt. Macnamara transferred, in March, 1810, as Senior Lieutenant, to the Berwick 74. We afterwards find him serving in the latter capacity, for short periods, on board the Stately 64, Capt. Edw. Stirling Dickson, off the port of Cadiz, and in the Tigre 74, Capt. John Halliday, and San Josef and Queen Charlotte first-rates, bearing the flag of Lord Keith on the Channel station. In Aug. and Oct. 1813, he assumed, in succession, the acting command of the Sparrow and Lyra sloops, in the former of which he conducted the blockade of Santona, and was employed at the storming of St. Sebastian. Since his official promotion, 6 Dec. 1813, Commander Campbell has been on half-pay.