Elliston Campbell
| Elliston Fauna Campbell | |
|---|---|
| Born |
22 February 1891 Walcha, New South Wales |
| Died | 28 December 1990 (aged 99) Faulconbridge, New South Wales |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Education |
Newington College University of Sydney |
| Occupation | Electrical engineer |
| Spouse(s) | Phyliss Violet Campbell (née Caspersz) |
| Parent(s) | Althea (née Gissing) and John Fauna Campbell |
Elliston Fauna Campbell (22 February 1891 – 28 December 1990) was an Australian electrical engineer and philanthropist who through a bequest funded the Adyar Library and Research Centre in Madras, India, and the Campbell Theosophical Research Library, an educational resource of the Theosophical Society in Sydney.
Campbell was born in Walcha, New South Wales, the first of three children, to Althea Louise (née Gissing) and John Fauna Campbell. In 1881 his father, John Campbell, adopted the middle name Fauna for identification purposes. Campbell's birth was followed by the arrival of siblings Roy Lancelot (1893) and Gladys (1894). He attended Newington College (1902–1908) during the early years of the Headmastership of the Rev Dr Charles Prescott. He sat for the Junior Examination (1907), Lower Matriculation (1908) and Senior Examination (1908). In that final year he was a Prefect and left at Christmas. Upon leaving Newington, Campbell studied engineering at Sydney Technical College. He went up to the University of Sydney in 1912 having been awarded a Peter Nicol Russell scholarship for entrance to the Department of Engineering and graduated B.E.(Mech & Elec) in 1915.
Campbell enlisted with the First Australian Imperial Force in 1915 and from 1917 until 1919 was an Australian munitions worker in the United Kingdom. His younger brother, Roy, served with the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps.
In Sydney on 25 August 1920, Campbell married Phyllis Violet Caspersz (1894–1974), the daughter of Justice Charles Peter Caspersz, of the Calcutta High Court. As Phyllis V Campbell, she published numerous volumes of poetry. She was also a composer who worked with modernist compositional techniques during the 1920s and she worked with many musicians from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
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