CAMPBELL, JOHN, 1ST LORD CAMPBELL (1779-1861).—­Lawyer and biographer, s. of the minister of Cupar-Fife, had a highly successful career as a lawyer, and held the offices successively of Solicitor and Attorney-General, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, Lord Chief Justice, and Lord Chancellor.  His contributions to literature were Lives of the Chancellors and Lives of the Chief Justices.  These works, though deficient in research and accuracy, often unfair in judgments of character, and loose and diffuse in style, are interesting and full of information.

CAMPBELL, JOHN FRANCIS (1822-1885).—­Celtic scholar, ed. at Eton and Edin., was afterwards Sec. to the Lighthouse Commission.  He was an authority on Celtic folk-lore, and pub. Popular Tales of the West Highlands (4 vols., 1860-62), and various Gaelic texts.

CAMPBELL, LEWIS (1830-1908).—­Scholar, s. of a naval officer, ed. at Edin., Glasgow, and Oxf., took orders, and was Vicar of Milford, Hants, until 1863, when he was appointed Prof. of Greek at St. Andrews.  He brought out ed. of Sophocles and other works on the Greek classics, and in conjunction with E. Abbott The Life and Letters of Prof.  Jowett (q.v.), with whom he had collaborated in editing the Republic of Plato.  He also ed. the poems of Thomas Campbell, to whom he was related.

CAMPBELL, THOMAS (1777-1844).—­Poet, was the youngest s. of Alexander C., a merchant in Glasgow, where he was b. After leaving the Univ. of that city, where he gained some distinction by his translations from the Greek, and acting for some time as a tutor, he went to Edin. to study law, in which, however, he did not make much progress, but gained fame by producing in 1799, at the age of 21, his principal poem, The Pleasures of Hope.  In spite of some of the faults of youth, the vigour of thought and description, and power of versification displayed in the poem, as well as its noble feeling for liberty, made it a marvellous performance for so young a man.  His other larger poems are Gertrude of Wyoming (1809), O’Connor’s Child, and Theodric (1824).  It is not, however, for these that he will be chiefly remembered, but for his patriotic and war lyrics, Ye Mariners of England, Hohenlinden, and The Battle of the Baltic, which are imperishable.  C. was also distinguished as a critic, and his Specimens of the British Poets (1819) is prefaced by an essay which is an important contribution to criticism.  C. resided in London from 1803 until the year of his death, which took place at Boulogne, whither he had repaired in search of health.  In addition to the works mentioned he wrote various compilations, including Annals of Great Britain, covering part of the reign of George III.  In 1805 he received a Government pension, and he was Lord Rector of Glasgow Univ. 1826-29.  He is buried in Westminster Abbey.