Colin Campbell, Baron Clyde

Colin Campbell, Baron Clyde (born October 20, 1792, Glasgow, Scotland—died August 14, 1863, Chatham, Kent, England) was a Scottish soldier who, among his many roles across a long career, served as commander in chief of British forces in India during the Rebellion of 1857. The son of a carpenter named Macliver, he assumed his mother’s name of Campbell in 1807 when he was promised a military commission by Frederick Augustus, duke of York and Albany,...