Person Gunn; Ronald Campbell (1808 - 1881) Gunn Ronald Campbell Robert Campbell 1808 - 1881 Australian Male Cape of Good Hope, Cape Colony [now in South Africa], Africa 04 April 1808 18080404 Newstead House, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, Oceania 14 March 1881 18810314

Colonial official Natural history Botany Zoology 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 Fellow 01/06/1854 46 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 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 4 Apr 1808 - 14 Mar 1881 NA6110 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 05/06/2025 RS_NET\VirginiaM Yes 9e14afae-6a0f-4ed1-a13e-26fe527aa423