Colin Campbell

Who is Colin Campbell?

Colin Campbell FRS was a Scottish astronomer.

He grew up in Jamaica. He matriculated at Glasgow University, in 1720. He was invested as a Fellow, Royal Society 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. He held the office of Member of the Council [Jamaica] in 1742. After 1742, he sold his astronomical instruments to Alexander Macfarlane. He lived in 1748 at St. George Hanover Square, London.