Mr John Thomas CAMPBELL (1770 - 1830)

Date of Birth: 08/04/1770
Place of Birth: Ulster, Ireland
Date of Death: 07/01/1830
Place of Death: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Parliamentary Service

Position	Start	End	Period	Parliament	Notes
Member of the NSW Legislative Council	30 Jan 1829	7 Jan 1830	11mth(s) 9day(s)		An Appointed Member of the first Legislative Council 1824 - 1843
Collector of Customs	5 Apr 1827	1828	8mth(s) 28day(s)

Qualifications, occupations and interests

Public servant. Vice-Regal secretary (1810 - 1820); Collector of Customs (1827 - 1828). Educated at home by their father. Spent the years from 1793 until 1795 in the Bank of Ireland. After arriving in Sydney, on 1 January 1810 Campbell was appointed secretary to Macquarie. Campbell took a leading part in the founding of the Bank of New South Wales from 1816 until 1817 and was appointed as the first president of the Board of Directors. As a private citizen was a large landholder and a most efficient farmer and breeder of cattle and horses.

Personal

Eldest son of the Reverend William Campbell, vicar of Newry, County Armagh, Ireland, and his wife Mary McCammon.

Additional Information

Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 1

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