Patrick Campbell (British Army officer)

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

His father, Neil Campbell (1736-1791) and his two older brothers, James Campbell (1773-1799) and Neil Campbell (1776-1827) were British soldiers.

Patrick Campbell began his military career under Ralph Abercromby in the Caribbean. In 1800 he was Brigade Major of the Royal Artillery in Gibraltar. 1809 during the Napoleonic Wars in the Iberian Peninsula, he joined the Ejército de Tierra and was used in the Battle of Talavera. In 1811 he received a command of a light infantry regiment. He was in the Order of Charles III. and the Order of Ferdinand added. His last military rank was that of a Lieutenant Colonel. In 1823 he joined the British Foreign Service. In the same year he was sent along with James Henderson and John Potter Hamilton as commissioner (English Commissioner) in the newly established State of Colombia. Henderson served after completion of a friendship treaty between the UK and Colombia (English Treaty of Amity ) to 1829 as Consul General. Hamilton and Campbell served as British envoy. On December 29, 1826 Campbell was appointed Secretary of the Embassy in Colombia.

On January 7, 1833, he was appointed British Consul General in Egypt and held this post until 1841. On 13 August 1841 he was forced to retire. Richard William Howard Vyse named one discovered in the exploration of the Cheops pyramid chamber by Patrick Campbell, who had been involved in the financing of the excavations.