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* CAMPBELL. 96 Russell Cabinet in the capacity of Chancellor of llic Duchy of Lancaster. His ministerial duties wcro uot sulKoicntly arduous to interrupt his literary labors, and he proceeded to complete the Liics of the Cluincellors, and to i)ublish a sup- plemental series of Lives of the Chief Justices of EiinUiml. Both works have enjoyed great popu- larity-, hut leave no doubt that the author was more fitted for a practical lawyer than for a man of letters, Thoun;h executed in a sprightly man- ner, these writings arc without grace of style and rejiresent to a painful degree the envy, the jirejudices, and the want of sympathy which were leading traits of Campbell's character. He re- turned to more congenial labors in 18.50, when he was appointed to succeed Demnan as Chief Justice, He held the office for nine years, at the end of which he received the Chancellorship of England. He died in .June, 18G1, His Life has been written by his daughter (1881), CAMPBELL, John (1840—), A Canadian seliolar, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, He was educated at the University of Toronto and at Xew College. Edinburgh, distinguishing himself in botli institutions. In 1808 he became minis- ter of the Charles Street Presbyterian Church in Toronto, and in 1873 he was appointed pro- fe-isor of Churcli history and apologetics in the Tre-byterian College, Montreal. He has con- tributed largely to learned societies and to Church reviews, and his work in theology and ethnol- ogy has been recognized botli in America and in Europe. His chief single publication is The llittitcs: Their Inscriptions (tin! Their History (2 vols., 1800). For certain statements in an address on The Perfect Father or the Perfect lUiok. Professor Campbell was tried for heresy before the Presbytery of ilontreal in 1893 and convicted. He, however, appealed to the Synod of ^Montreal and Ottawa and was sustained. CAMPBELL, John Archibald (1811-89). An .American jurist. He was born in Washing- ton, Ga.: graduated in 1820 at the University of Georgia, and was admitted to the bar in 1829. llis legal ability was recognized by President Pierce, wlio. in" 18.53, appointed him associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, an ollice which he held until the outbreak of the Ci>il War, Subsequently he served as Assistant Secretary of War in the Confederate Government, and was" one of the jieace commissioners at the Fortress Monroe conference in 180ij. After the war lie was imprisoned at Fort Pulaski, but was released ujion parole, and resumed liis law prac- tice, CAMPBELL, ,JoHN Francis, of Islay (lain Ileach) (1822-8o), .V Scottish-Celtic scholar. He was born in Edinburgh, December 29, 1822, and was the eldest .son of Walter Frederick Campbell and Lady Eleanor Charteris, eldest daugliter of Francis, seventh Earl of Wemyss, He was edu- cated at Eton and Edinburgh, and occupied sev- eral (lovernment posts. He was a meteorologist of some distinction and invented an instrument for recording the intensity of the >un's rays. In 1805 he published Frost and Fire. y<iturul En- {lines, Toolmarl.s and Chips, u-ith f<ketches Taken at Ihmtc and Ahmad hy a Traveler, and in 1S83 a book on Thermofiraphy. But he is chiefly re- membered for his collections of Scottish Gaelic folktales and ballads. In 18(!-02 he )niblislied llis Piipuhir Tales of the M'cst Uiiihhuids in four CAMPBELL. volumes, and in 1872 he brought out an impor- tant volume of Gaelic ballads under the title, Leahhar na Fcinne. The tales were taken down conscientiously from the mouths of the people, and constitute the most valuable collection of the sort that has yet been made in any of the Celtic countries. The Leahhar na Feinne brings to- gether all the accessible Scottish Gaelic ballads on Ossianic subjects. It was Campbell's inten- tion to pulilish other volumes containing other cycles of ballads, but the plan was never carried out. CAMPBELL, John McLeod (1800-72). A Scotch lliei'loyian. He was born at Kihiinver, and studied in Edinburgh and Glasgow from 1811 to 1821, when lie was licensed. He was inducted into the parish of Row in 1825, and after a trial by the Assembly for heresy in his doctrines re- garding the Atonement, was deposed in 1831. From 1833 to 1859 he preached to an independent congregation in Glasgow, His chief work is the Sature of the Atonement, and Its Relation to Remission of Sins and Eternal Life (1850, 4th cd, 1873), which has had a more than slight influence upon Scottish religious thought. His further publications include Thoughts on Revela- tion (1802), CAMPBELL, Thomas (1777-1844). An Englisli pod. born in Glasgow July 27, 1777, He was educated at the University of Glasgow, where he was distinguished for liis knowledge of Greek literature. In 1795 he went as tutor to Sunipol on the island of JIull. The scenery of the western Highlands, which made a deep im- pression on llis mind, is reflected in his verse. Keturning from Hull, he repaired to Edinburgh with the intention of studying law. This plan he, liowever, s(X)ii abandoned for literature. His flrst poem. The Pleasures of Hope, suggested to him while at Mull, was published in 1799, and went through four editions in a twelvemonth. After its publication, Campbell went to Ger- many, visiting -Munich, Lei])zig, and Hamburg, where he was staying at the time of the battle of Hohenlinden, During this period he wrote The Exile of Erin and Ye Mariners of England. Returning 1o E<linburgh, he published, in 1801, Loehicl's ^yarninf/ and Hohenlinden. In 1803 he proceeded to London, and adopted literature as a jirofession. In 1805, through the influence of Fox, he was granted a royal pension of X200 a year. In 1809 ajipcarcd Gertrude of Wyoming, w hieh bears the same relation to Tha Ph<isurcs of Hope that Thomson's Castle of Indolence bears to The Seasons — a less brilliant and striking, but more mature and finished perfcumance. In 1819 he published his Specimens of liritish Ports, con- taining an excellent introductorj' essay on poetry, and good biographies of the poets themselves. At this very time he was also delivering lectures on jioetry. After this he edited the Xeip Monthly .Magazine, contributing t« it several pwnis, among which is The Last Man. In 1824 he pub- lished Thcodoric. and Other Poems. In 182C he was elected Lord Rector of the TTniversity of Glasgow, and he received the unusual honor of re- election in the two following years. He published The Pilgrim of (llencoe and Other Poems in 1842. His later publications added nothing to his fame. He died in Boulogne. France, .Tune 15, 1844. and was buricil in Westminster Abbey. Campbell's verse is unciiual in qualitj-, but it is usually