{"record":{"aliases":["Sir Ronald Ian Campbell"],"appointmentIds":["united-kingdom-e3cf4f7f7fb4e7"],"appointmentsDataset":"https://chanceries.org/diplomats.json","archivalSources":[],"canonicalUrl":"https://chanceries.org/diplopedia/people/ronald-ian-campbell-9dc81ac1fa/","countrySlug":"united-kingdom","entityId":"https://chanceries.org/diplopedia/people/ronald-ian-campbell-9dc81ac1fa/#person","eventIds":[],"expandedParagraphs":["Ronald Ian Campbell (1890–1983) studied at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating in 1912. His diplomatic career included two Washington postings, separated by senior appointments in Europe. In March 1930, while serving as chargé d’affaires, he discussed British policy toward Shanghai with the State Department. He distinguished proposals to alter the administration of the international settlement from the separate question of foreign extraterritorial jurisdiction in China.","Campbell became minister at Paris in 1938 and at Belgrade in 1939. In July 1941 he was appointed minister at the British embassy in Washington, working under Ambassador Halifax. He remained in Washington until 1944 and subsequently served as an assistant under-secretary in the Foreign Office.","In August 1942 Campbell urged Sumner Welles to consider admitting thirty thousand Polish refugees to the United States. They were family members of Polish servicemen leaving the Soviet Union. Welles declined, citing the difficulty of shipping them across the world and the legislation that admission would require. He instead offered American assistance for temporary camps in Iran, including Red Cross supplies.","Appointed ambassador to Egypt in March 1946, Campbell dealt with negotiations over British evacuation and the future of Sudan. In January 1947 he put alternatives to Prime Minister Mahmud Fahmy al-Nuqrashi that preserved the Sudanese right to choose their future political status. Egypt insisted on the permanent unity of the Nile Valley and rejected both alternatives. Campbell continued the discussions, but a further British amendment later that month also failed to obtain Egyptian agreement."],"id":"united-kingdom:ronald ian campbell","identifiers":{},"legacyPersonIds":[],"legacyUrl":"https://chanceries.org/diplomat-9dc81ac1fa0dbec8e666.html","name":"Ronald Ian Campbell","notes":[],"paragraphSources":[["src-75a50773eca06447","src-b3509a48145ebe73"],["src-75a50773eca06447","src-5d570b413cbe3606"],["src-98998e0fe666b20f"],["src-de9884c5faff65de","src-4c0870fe34ab6a81"]],"profileUrl":"diplomat-9dc81ac1fa0dbec8e666.html","relatedEvents":[],"relatedPeople":[],"relationships":[],"researchStatus":"reviewed","reviewedOn":"2026-10-28","revision":"0f909e745407b422","sources":[{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":null,"id":"src-75a50773eca06447","locator":"Person 82581; Burke volume 1, p. 662","publisher":"ThePeerage, citing Burke’s Peerage 2003","title":"Sir Ronald Ian Campbell","type":"reference","url":"https://www.thepeerage.com/p8259.htm"},{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"1930-03-17","id":"src-b3509a48145ebe73","locator":"FRUS 1930 II, document 471","publisher":"US Department of State","title":"Conversation with Campbell about Shanghai","type":"primary-record","url":"https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1930v02/d471"},{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"1941-10-14","id":"src-5d570b413cbe3606","locator":"p. 5960; appointment dated 30 July 1941","publisher":"The London Gazette","title":"Appointment of Sir Ronald Ian Campbell as minister at Washington","type":"primary-record","url":"https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35309/page/5960/data.pdf"},{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"1942-08-03","id":"src-98998e0fe666b20f","locator":"FRUS 1942 III, document 147","publisher":"US Department of State","title":"Welles conversation with Campbell about Polish refugees","type":"primary-record","url":"https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1942v03/d147"},{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"1946-08-06","id":"src-de9884c5faff65de","locator":"p. 3990; appointment dated 12 March 1946","publisher":"The London Gazette","title":"Appointment of Sir Ronald Ian Campbell to Cairo","type":"primary-record","url":"https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37677/page/3990/data.pdf"},{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"1947-01-09","id":"src-4c0870fe34ab6a81","locator":"FRUS 1947 V, document 519, including footnote 6 on subsequent rejection","publisher":"US Department of State","title":"Gallman to Secretary of State: Anglo-Egyptian negotiations","type":"primary-record","url":"https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1947v05/d519"},{"accessedOn":"","date":"","id":"mission-b4d295947e472d10913c","locator":"","publisher":"","title":"Ronald Ian Campbell — mission record (1930)","type":"Mission record","url":"https://2009-2017.state.gov/s/cpr/rls/94544.htm"}],"topics":["Shanghai","extraterritoriality","Polish refugees","Second World War","Egypt","Sudan"]},"schemaVersion":1}