Everything about Robert Campbell Australian Landowner totally explained
Robert Campbell (
28 April 1769 –
15 April 1846) was
Sydney's first merchant and a pioneering land owner.
Campbell was born at
Greenock,
Inverclyde,
Scotland and moved to
India as a young man. In India he and an older brother were partners in
Campbell, Clark and Company, merchants of
Calcutta. Campbell moved to Sydney in
1798 to open a branch of his business. He subsequently built Campbell's wharf and developed a large business as a general merchant. After the arrival of Governor
William Bligh in August 1806, Campbell's high character led to his being appointed treasurer to the public funds, naval officer, and collector of taxes, and, there being no bank at Sydney in 1807, the gaol and orphan funds were deposited with Campbell on its undertaking to pay interest at five per cent. In November 1801 he married
Sophia Palmer (1777-1833).
Campbell's ship the
"Sydney" was lost off the coast of India while chartered to the government. In compensation he was granted of land and 710 sheep. In 1825
James Ainslie established a sheep station for Campbell in the area where
Canberra is now situated. Robert named the property
Duntroon after his ancestral
Duntrune Castle,
Argyll and Bute, Scotland. In later years Campbell provided half the cost of the church of St John the Baptist in its original form. In January 1830 he was a member of the committee which recommended that King's schools should be founded at Sydney and
Parramatta, and as evidence of his continued high standing in the community, when the Savings Bank of New South Wales was founded in 1832 it was found that Campbell had deposited with him £8000 belonging to convicts, and £2000 belonging to free people. He was allowing seven and a half per cent interest on these deposits. Campbell retired from the legislative council and from public life in 1843, and in 1844 his name was included in a list of those considered eligible for a proposed local order of merit.
Campbell had seven children, John,
Robert, Charles, Sophia Ives, Sarah, George and Frederick, several of whom were members of the
Parliament of New South Wales.
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