Campbell, Lewis ♂

Education

Professor of Greek 3.11.1863 - 15.7.1892 (retired).

Gifford lecturer 1894 - 1896.

Birth/childhood

Born 3.9.1830 son of Captain Robert Campbell, R.N. Governor [Royal Navy Governor] of Ascension Island and Eliza Constantia Pryce. [Naval officer]

Career

Educated at Glasgow University 1847 - 1849. LL.D. 1871.

And Oxford University - M.A. 1856.

Ordained priest in the Church of England 1857. Vicar Milford, Hants. [Milford, Hampshire] 1858 - 1863. [Minister]

Professor of Greek 3.11.1863 - 15.7.1892 (retired). [St Andrews University] [University professor]

Gifford lecturer 1894 - 1896. [St Andrews University] [University lecturer]

Publications

The Sophistes and Politicus of Plato (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1867)

The Life of James Clerk Maxwell... by Lewis Campbell and William Garnett (London: Macmillan, 1882)

The Theaetetus of Plato (Oxford: Clarendon, 1883

Plato's Republic (London: John Murray, 1902)

etc

Death

Died 25.10.1908 at Brissago, Lake Maggiore [Switzerland].

Sources

• UYUY452/22/64
• College Echoes 1908/09
• Edin. Acad Chronicle xvi 1928)
• Lewis Campbell on The Gifford Lectures website.