| Authorised form of name | Gunn; Ronald Campbell (1808 - 1881) |
| Other forms of name | Robert Campbell |
| Dates | 1808 - 1881 |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Place of birth | Cape of Good Hope, Cape Colony [now in South Africa], Africa |
| Date of birth | 04 April 1808 |
| Place of death | Newstead House, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, Oceania |
| Date of death | 14 March 1881 |
| Occupation | Colonial administrator |
| Research field | Natural history |
| Botany |
| Zoology |
| Activity | Education:
Educated in Scotland
Career:
Royal Engineers at Barbados; Superintendent of convicts for North Tasmania at Launceston (1830); police magistrate at Circular Head (1836); assistant police magistrate at Hobart Town (1838); private secretary to the Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania Sir John Franklin and clerk of the executive and legislative councils (1839); estate manager to William Effingham Lawrence (1841); travelled widely in Tasmania and made zoological collections for the British Museum; corresponded with botanists Sir William Jackson Hooker FRS, Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker PRS and John Lindley FRS and collected botanical specimens for them in Tasmania |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 01/06/1854 |
| Age at election | 46 |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; AuDB; Wikipedia
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1882-1883 vol 34 pp xiii-xv signed by J D H
Notes:
RS sources give his first name as Ronald, but DNB and Boase give Robert, AuDB gives first name as Ronald.
References:
R W Home, 'The Royal Society and the Empire: the colonial and Commonwealth Fellowship. Part 2. After 1847' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 47-84 |
| Code | NA6110 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1854/06 | Gunn, Ronald Campbell: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |