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Colin Campbell FRS (died 26 January 1752 in Kingston, Jamaica) was a Scottish astronomer. He grew up in Jamaica. He matriculated at Glasgow University, in 1720. He was invested as a Fellow, Royal Society (F.R.S.) in 1733. He studied Newton's theory of the diminution of gravity away from the equator. He made astronomical observations, in correspondence with Edmund Halley.〔(''Science in the British colonies of America'' ), Raymond Phineas Stearns, University of Illinois Press, 1970, ISBN 978-0-252-00120-8〕 He held the office of Member of the Council () in 1742. After 1742, he sold his astronomical instruments to Alexander Macfarlane.〔("The Jamaican Observatories of Colin Campbell, F.R.S. and Alexander Macfarlane, F.R.S." ), ''Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London'', D. J. Bryden, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Apr., 1970), pp. 261-272〕 He lived in 1748 at St. George Hanover Square, London. ==Family== He was the son of Colonel John Campbell and Katherine Claiborne. He married Margaret Foster who died in London in 1786;〔National Archives, London, PROB 11/1142, will of Margaret Campbell, probated May 1786〕 they had children * John Campbell b. 8 January 1735.〔Westminster City Archives, Saint Anne Soho, Baptisms, Vol. 2, February 1734/5〕 John Campbell left Jamaica in 1756 "owing to a bad state of health"〔Argyll & Bute Archives, MacTavish of Dunardry papers, Colin Campbell letter to cousin James Campbell of Kaims, at Isle of Bute, Scotland, 22 August 1757〕 but returned in 1767〔Campbell, Marion, ‘Letters by The Packet’, Argyll & Bute library, 2004. John Campbell of Orange Bay to his father-in-law in Scotland, dated 4 June 1767 (Jamaica letters in the Kilberry papers)〕 to dispose of the estates in order to clear his debts. * Elizabeth Campbell b.15 December 1736.〔Westminster City Archives, Saint Anne Soho, Baptisms, Vol. 2, January 1736/7〕 * Margaret Jane Campbell b. a 6 January 1739.〔Westminster City Archives, St James Piccadilly, Baptisms, Vol. 3, January 1739〕 She died in Surrey in September 1771.〔National Archives, London, will of Margaret Jane Campbell, PROB 11/970, proved 12 September 1771.〕 * Colin Campbell1 b. a 1747.〔Not named in 1746 will of Henry Barham, his mother's stepfather, but named in the 1748 will of his father〕 He was a Lt. Colonel in the 1st Guards and died at Portman Square, London,in 1793 having contracted "the Dunkirk fever" while campaigning against the French in Flanders.〔General Evening Post, London, 2 November 1793, news item〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Colin Campbell (astronomer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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