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His father, Robert Campbell, R.N. , was a first cousin of Thomas Campbell , the Poet . He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy , and Glasgow and Oxford universities, He was fellow and tutor of Queen's College, Oxford (1855–1858), vicar of Milford , Hampshire (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 College, Oxford .

As a scholar he is best known by his work on Sophocles and Plato . His published works include:
  • ''Sophocles'' (2nd ed., 1879)

  • Plato, ''Sophistes'' and ''Politicus'' (1867)

  • '' Theaetetus '' (2nd ed., 1883)

  • ''Republic'' (with Benjamin Jowett , 1894)

  • ''Life and Letters of Benjamin Jowett'' (with EA Abbott , 1897)

  • ''Letters of B. Jowett'' (1899)

  • ''Life of James Clerk Maxwell '' (with W Garnett, new ed., 1884)

  • ''A Guide to Greek Tragedy for English Readers'' (1891)

  • ''Religion in Greek Literature'' (1898)

  • ''On the Nationalisation of the Old English Universities'' (1901)

  • ''Verse translations of the plays of Aeschylus '' (1890)

  • ''Sophocles'' (1896)

  • ''Tragic Drama in Aeschylus, Sophocles and Shakespeare '' (1904)

  • ''Paralipomena Sophoclea'' (1907).


''This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica .''