Donald Campbell (1751 – 5 June 1804), of Barbreck, Argyll, was a Scottish traveller in India and the Middle East.
Soldiers of Hyder Ali, ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore, captured him and he was imprisoned in Nagara, Karnataka, chained to a man named Hall.
Despatched to Bombay and Madras, he travelled, by sea and land, and in Calcutta negotiated with Warren Hastings.
A new edition appeared in 1796, in quarto, like the first; in the same year an abridged version was published, in octavo, with the title Narrative of Adventures and a preface signed' 'S.
[2] He also published Letter to the Marquis of Lorn on the Present Times (London, 1798),[3] protesting party factions in connection with the war with France.