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==Biography== [[File:St Salvator's Chapel, interior.jpg|250 px|left|thumb|The Rev. Lewis Campbell preached at the University of St Andrews' [[St Salvator's Chapel|College Church]]]] Campbell was born in [[Edinburgh]]. His father, Robert Campbell, [[Royal Navy|RN]], was a first cousin of [[Thomas Campbell (poet)|Thomas Campbell]], the poet. His mother was the author [[Eliza Constantia Campbell]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Lewis Campbell|title=Memorials in Verse and Prose of Lewis Campbell|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iFq5zcmkaMUC|year=1914|publisher=private circulation|page=454}}</ref> His father died when he was two years of age.<ref name=Kahan>{{cite web | last = Kahan | first = David | title = Lewis Campbell | url = https://www.giffordlectures.org/lecturers/lewis-campbell | website = [[Gifford Lectures]] | access-date = 2021-08-28 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210523161602/https://www.giffordlectures.org/lecturers/lewis-campbell | archive-date = 2021-05-23 | url-status = live }}</ref> In 1844 his mother married Col. Hugh Morrieson.{{sfn|Craik|2004}} Campbell was educated at [[Edinburgh Academy]], the [[University of Glasgow]], [[Trinity College, Oxford]] and [[Balliol College, Oxford]]. He was fellow and tutor of [[The Queen's College, Oxford|Queen's College, Oxford]] (1855–1858), vicar of [[Milford on Sea|Milford]], Hampshire (1858–1863), and professor of [[Greek language|Greek]] at the [[University of St Andrews]] (1863–1894). An advocate for the [[Tertiary education|higher education for women]], he was closely involved in the foundation of [[St Leonards School|St Leonards School for Girls]] and was the chairman of the school council from 1886 to 1903.<ref>{{cite book |title=St Leonard's School 1877–1977 |date=1977 |publisher=Blackie & Son|page=81 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xC1GAAAAMAAJ&q=lewis+campbell++st+Leonards+1886-1903 |access-date=19 March 2022 |quote=Chairman of Council ...Lewis Campbell 1886–1903}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Craik |first1=E. |title=Professor Lewis Campbell |url=https://www.giffordlectures.org/lecturers/lewis-campbell |publisher=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |access-date=13 February 2022 |quote=Emeritus Professor of Greek, University of St Andrews...advocated higher education for women. As to the latter, he was closely involved in the foundation of St Leonard’s School for women and was the chairman of the school council for many years.}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Campbell |first1=Lewis |date=1891 |title=The Journal Of Education |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HZJIAAAAYAAJ&dq=st+leonards++school+girls+ulewis+campbell&pg=PA593 |journal=The Journal of Education |pages=593–4 |access-date=19 March 2022 |quote=[Campbell still chairman of council in 1891 having been elected in 1886]}}</ref> In 1894, he was elected an honorary fellow of [[Balliol College, Oxford]]. From 1894 to 1896 at St Andrews, he gave the [[Gifford Lectures]], which were published in 1898.{{sfn|Campbell|1898}} An [[Anglican]] vicar, in October 1893 Campbell was reportedly preaching at the University of St Andrews' [[St Salvator's Chapel|College Church]] which maintains links with the [[Diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane|Scottish Episcopalian denomination]].<ref>{{cite news |title=The Rev. Lewis Campbell |url=https://www.genesreunited.com.au/searchbna/results?memberlastsubclass=none&searchhistorykey=0&keywords=lewis%20campbell&county=fife%2c%20scotland&from=1892&to=1896 |publisher=St. Andrews Citizen Fife, Scotland |date=21 October 1893 |quote=Rev. Lewis Campbell, Emeritus Professor of Greek, preached in the College Church last Sunday morning. The* subject of his discourse was the...}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Clarke |first1=M. |title=Classical Education in Britain, 1500–1900 |date=1959 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=158 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qug8AAAAIAAJ&dq=anglican+orders+Lewis+Campbell&pg=PA158 |access-date=11 April 2021 |quote=...of Scotsman who, like Lewis Campbell, had taken Anglican Orders}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Evensong The Scottish Book of Common Prayer (1929) |url=https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/assets/university/community-facilities/documents/worship/evensong_booklet.pdf |access-date=24 April 2024 |quote=Welcome to '''St Salvator’s Chapel''' at the heart of this ancient learning community. This service of Evensong is based on the monastic method of worship which has nourished the Church through most of Christian history. It is characterized by the corporate recitation and chanting of scripture and prayers in a meditative manner. During the Reformation of the Church in these islands, two of the Latin monastic offices (Vespers and Compline) were combined into Evening Prayer, commonly known as Evensong. Although virtually unchanged since 1549, it remains a resonant part of the Church’s sacrifice of prayer in the '''Episcopal Church of Scotland''',}}</ref>
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