Colin Campbell FRS (died 26 January 1752) was a Scottish astronomer.
He studied Newton's theory of the diminution of gravity away from the equator.
He made astronomical observations, in correspondence with Edmund Halley.
[3] In his will, he also bequeathed to his son, Colin, his "Negroes" at his two sugar plantations, Orange Bay and Fish River.
He married Margaret Foster who died in London in 1786;[5] they had children John Campbell left Jamaica in 1756 "owing to a bad state of health"[7] but returned in 1767[8] to dispose of the estates in order to clear his debts.