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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 5… (1911)

CAMPBELL, LEWIS (1830–1908) , British classical scholar, was born at Edinburgh on the 3rd of September 1830. His father, Robert Campbell, R.N., was a first cousin of Thomas Campbell, the poet. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy, and Glasgow and Oxford universities. He was fellow and tutor of Queen’s College, Oxford (1855–1858) , vicar of Milford, Hants (1858–1863) , and professor of Greek and Gifford lecturer at the university of St Andrews (1863–1894) . In 1894 he was elected an honorary fellow of Balliol. As a scholar he is best known by his work on Sophocles and Plato.
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