CAMPBELL, Alexander Duncan. Edinburgh 6.1.1786 (or 1789?) — London 4.4.1857. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in India, interested in Telugu. Son of William Campbell (1749–1815) and Catherine Gunning. From 1806 in Madras Civil Service, 1816 Member of the Board of Superintendence for College of Fort St. George, from 1821 Collector and Magistrate in Bellary, from 1827 in Tanjore, remained in India at least until 1835, when his son, the future Major-General Alexander Campbell was born in Madras. Later probably retired, his will is written in Middlesex. Active in Madras Literary Society. His grammar was written for the young I.C.S. recruits learning Telugu at College Fort St. George. Married Matilda Thurby (b. 1793), three sons.
Publications: A Grammar of the Teloogoo Language, Commonly Termed the Gentoo. 3+25+20+208+19 p. Madras 1816, 2nd ed. 21+31+202+18 p. Madras 1820, 3rd 1849 (“Ch. Ph. Brown: “Bhattyam, a crabbled treatise on Telugu grammar, of which Mr. A.C. had written a translation, tolerably correct” – JRAS 17, 1885, Proc. xvf.).
– A Dictionary of the Teloogoo Language, Commonly Termed the Gentoo, Peculiar to the Hindoos of the North Eastern Provinces of the Indian Peninsula. 4+601+5 p. Madras 1821, 2nd ed. 12+322 p. Madras 1848.
– “On the state of Slavery in Southern India”, MJLS 1, 1834, 243-255; “On the state of Education of the Natives in Southern India”, MJLS 1, 1834, 350-359.
Sources: Not in Br. Biogr. Arch. 1st & 2nd series (but son briefly noted); stray notes in Internet, books scanned by Google; WikiTree; ancestors.familysearch.org.
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