John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell
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The Lord Campbell PC QC |
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Lord Campbell
by Thomas Woolnoth circa 1851. |
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| Lord Chancellor of Ireland | |
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In office June 1841 – June 1841 |
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| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | The Viscount Melbourne |
| Preceded by | The Lord Plunket |
| Succeeded by | Sir Edward Sugden |
| Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster | |
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In office 6 July 1846 – 5 March 1850 |
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| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | Lord John Russell |
| Preceded by | Lord Granville Somerset |
| Succeeded by | The Earl of Carlisle |
| Chief Justice, Queen's Bench | |
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In office 5 March 1850 – 24 June 1859 |
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| Monarch | Victoria |
| Preceded by | The Lord Denman |
| Succeeded by | Sir Alexander Cockburn, Bt |
| Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom | |
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In office 18 June 1859 – 24 June 1861 |
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| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | The Viscount Palmerston |
| Preceded by | The Lord Chelmsford |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Westbury |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
17 September 1779 Cupar, Fife, UK |
| Died | 24 June 1861 (aged 81) Stratheden House, Knightsbridge, London SW7 |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party |
Whig Liberal |
| Spouse(s) | Hon. Mary Scarlett (1796–1860) |
| Alma mater | United College, St Andrews |
John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell, PC, QC, FRSE (17 September 1779 – 24 June 1861) was a British Liberal politician, lawyer and man of letters.
The second son of the Reverend George Campbell, D.D., and Magdalene Hallyburton, he was born a son of the manse at Cupar, Fife, Scotland, where his father was for fifty years parish minister. For seven years, from the age of 11, Campbell studied at the United College, St Andrews.
When he was 18, he was offered the opportunity to leave home and see something of the world by becoming a tutor. The family lived in Clapham, just outside London, with a summer house at Shenley, Hertfordshire. His employer was David Webster, London merchant of a sugar trading house, with family connections through the Wedderburn baronets to the plantations of Jamaica. Living in this wealthy household, the young Campbell saw a different world, and it didn't impress him: the commercial conversation and gossip of "West India merchants and East India captains" created an atmosphere "irksome" and "unbearable". His pupil, James Wedderburn Webster, was about ten years old, and as yet ignorant of Latin, which Campbell himself had learned at school in Cupar. (His charge grew up to be known as "Bold" Webster, a much-ridiculed dandy of the Regency era. He married Frances Caroline Annesley; Lord Byron knew the couple well and mentions them in his letters.)
Campbell took advantage of being in London to attend a session of the House of Commons, hearing William Wilberforce speak against slavery, followed by Charles James Fox and William Pitt. He describes it vividly in his memoirs forty years later, concluding, "After hearing this debate, I could no longer have been content with being 'Moderator of the General Assembly [of the Church of Scotland]'.".
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