William Henry Campbell (Queensland politician)
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The Hon William Campbell |
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| Member of the Queensland Legislative Council | |
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In office 12 July 1906 – 17 June 1919 |
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William Henry Campbell 18 July 1846 Jersey, Channel Islands |
| Died | 17 June 1919 (aged 72) Barcaldine, Queensland, Australia |
| Resting place | Barcaldine Cemetery |
| Nationality | English Australian |
| Spouse(s) | Lucy Neale (m.1879 d.1944) |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Religion | Church of England |
William Henry Campbell was a politician and newspaper editor/proprietor in Queensland, Australia. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Council.
William Henry Campbell was born on 18 July 1846 at Jersey in the Channel Islands, the son of Major-General Charles Stewart Campbell and his wife Elizabeth Charlotte (née Dale). His father was wounded at the Battle of Waterloo and was retired. The family moved to England where William Campbell attended private primary schools and Bluecoat School, a military school. He had a natural artistic skill, which he used to create pencil caricatures as well as oil and watercolour paintings.
At the age of about sixteen, William Campbell accompanied one of his brothers to New Zealand during the Māori Wars. William studied the Māori language and acted as an interpreter for his brother's regiment.
After that, he went to Queensland and made his way to the Palmer River Goldfields near Cooktown. There he contracted a fever which made him an invalid for months. While in North Queensland, he met Spencer Browne who had newspaper interests in Cooktown where the brothers Charles John James and Frederic Robert James were working. William Campbell contributed numerous articles on various subjects to this newspaper.
William Campbell then travelled to New South Wales where he wrote and sketched for a number of newspapers. Sir Henry Parkes liked his work and offered him an appointment at a salary of £1000 a year on one of his newspapers. He also travelled to Victoria and worked for a time on the The Argus, a Melbourne newspaper.
In the early 1870s, William Campbell arrived in Blackall, Queensland, where he joined Mr Monahan in establishing a newspaper, The Western Champion. However, Mr Monahan retired soon after and William Campbell continued to run the newspaper on his own until 1879, when he was joined by the James brothers from Cooktown. The three entered into a partnership that continued until William Campbell's death. In about 1885, they relocated the newspaper to Barcaldine.
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