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|name = Campbell Claye Grant Ross
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|birth_place = [[Sagar, Madhya Pradesh|Saugor]], [[British India]]
|death_date = {{death date and age|1892|06|20|1824|05|18}}
|death_place = [[Eastbourne]]
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General '''Sir Campbell Claye Grant Ross''' {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|KCB}} (18 May 1824 – 20 June 1892) was a Scottish officer in the [[British Indian Army]]. He fought in the [[Jowaki Expedition]].<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/363/mode/1up Dictionary of Indian Biography]</ref><ref name="times">{{cite news |title= Obituary |work=[[The Times]] |date= 24 June 1892 |page= 10 }}</ref>

Ross was born in [[Sagar, Madhya Pradesh|Saugor]], [[British India]],<ref name="1891census">''1891 England Census''</ref> the second son of Lt Col Hugh Ross and Eliza Watson. He was descended from the chiefs of [[Clan Ross]].<ref name="burke">{{cite book |title= [[Burke's Peerage|Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood]]|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Mosley, Charles |editor-link=Charles Mosley (genealogist) |edition=107 |year= 2003 |page= 3403 |ref=Burke |isbn=0-9711966-2-1}}</ref>

He was made a Companion of the [[Order of the Bath]] in the [[1877 Birthday Honours]], at which time he was in the [[Bengal Staff Corps]], and later rose to Knight Commander of that order in 1880.<ref name="burke"/>

In 1856, he married Matilda Elderton, daughter of Edward Merrick Elderton. They had 10 children, the eldest of whom was the physician Sir [[Ronald Ross]], winner of the [[Nobel Prize]] for medicine. Sir Ronald's grandson David Campbell Ross (born 1934) was named Chief of Clan Ross in 1999.<ref name="burke"/>

He died in Eastbourne, aged 68, and was buried at [[Ocklynge]] Cemetery.<ref name="times"/>

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