James Campbell of Moore Park

Glasgow merchant, partner in John Campbell senior & Co. (q.v.), awarded with his co-partners the compensation for the enslaved people on several estates in British Guiana under nine separate awards. The firm was dissolved in 1858, although the family re-emerged in the 20th century as partners in Curtis Campbell. 

1. James Campbell of Moore Park (1792-1874), son of John Campbell senior (1735-1808). 'The last survivor of the family of John Campbell senior: a man of fine presence and stately manners, and familiarly known as "Dignity". He was latterly in the East India trade, first in the Glasgow house of Campbell, Bogle & Douglas, and afterwards along with his nephews, sons to Colgrain, in the great Bombay house of Finlay Campbell & Co. He married Elizabeth Bogle of Gilmorehill and had a numerous family.'

T71/885 British Guiana claim no. 591 (Melville Crimsary (?) and Strath Campbell); T71/887 British Guiana claim nos. 2281B, 2317A&B (Endeavour), 2318 (Enterprise), 2341 (Annandale), 2348, 2398A&B (Vrouw Anna), 2441 (Johanna) and 2454 (Perth).

1. John Guthrie Smith and John Oswald Mitchell, The old country houses of the old Glasgow gentry (2nd edn., Glasgow, James MacLehose & Sons, 1878), LXXXIII Possil and LXXIV Moore Park, available at http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/smihou/smihou083.htm and http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/smihou/smihou074.htm [both accessed 14/08/2012].