Final Years
On returning home, he acquired the office of Usher of the White Rod. The Institution of Royal Engineers described Campbell as "the most brilliant of the engineers who served in India during the eighteenth century". Following a cold caught coming up from Scotland, he died the following year, 31 March 1791, at his newly purchased London home on Upper Grosvenor Street, bought from the Duke of Montrose. He was only fifty two. His fortune, land and political titles passed to his two brothers, and his wife was given £25,000.
Campbell and his wife died without children, and they were both buried at Westminster Abbey next to Handel's Monument in Poets' Corner. Also buried there was his nephew, Lt.-General Sir James Campbell of Inverneill, and his wife's kinsmen, the Earl of Mansfield and Admiral Lindsay).
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