1777 - 1844

Born Glasgow on 27th July 1777.

He was the eleventh child.

Campbell won prizes for verse translations from the Classics and a poetical essay while at school and university.

Went to Edinburgh study to law.

Achieved success with the publication in 1799 of a long poem in heroic couplets, The Pleasures of hope.

His patriotic verse won him recognition in 1805, with the grant of a government pension.

Campbell wrote for newspapers, compiled biographies, contributed articles to encyclopaedias, and from 1820 to 1831 edited The New monthly review.

Campbell died in Boulogne on 15th June, 1844.

He is buried in Westminster Abbey.



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