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The retired proconsul's discordant tones and self-importance—the subject of covert mockery in official Bengal—incurred open derision at
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Campbell was responsible for provincial finance reform, devolving responsibility for the control of expenditure to local government, where previously it had been under the control of central government. He introduced The Bengal Road Cess Act of 1871, which imposed a property-based tax, the revenues
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of which were dedicated to the improvement of, primarily, road infrastructure, and the budgets for which were under local control. Other transport innovation of his time included the establishment of Port Trust
Commissioners for the port of
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Campbell married, in 1853, Laetitia Maria Vibart, daughter of John Gowan Vibart, of the Bengal civil service, and left several children. Lady
Campbell died in London 21 October 1901, aged 68.
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interest, but retired from his candidature before the general election: he then published his work on Irish Land Tenure, and was made a
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demands he ensured that the protest remained peaceful, at the same time antagonising the landlords and his namesake
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