Governor of Madras
In India, Madras was exhausted after the war against Mysore, and no serious military operations were undertaken until renewed hostilities against that state became inevitable at the end of 1789. In 1786, Campbell, who was now a well-known and highly respected figure, was appointed Commander-in-Chief and Governor of Madras. Throughout his term of office, the country had a rest from the devastating wars, and so he devoted himself to the development of peaceful institutions. He founded a Military Board which absorbed the duties of the Committee of Works; a Hospital Board, a Board of Revenue and a Board of Trade. He reorganized the Police, established a Stock Exchange and a Bank. He built an Astronomical observatory and constituted an Orphan Asylum. In fact, there was hardly a department of the civil administration in which he did not labour to secure improvement and order. Madras sustained a serious loss when, overcome by illness, he was forced to leave India in February 1789, retiring the post of governor from England in 1790.
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