LEWIS

See also:

• CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER (1788–1866)
• CAMPBELL, BEATRICE STELLA (Mrs PATRICK CAMPBELL) (1865– )
• CAMPBELL, GEORGE (1719–1796)
• CAMPBELL, JOHN
• CAMPBELL, JOHN (1708-1775)
• CAMPBELL, JOHN CAMPBELL, BARON (1779-1861)
• CAMPBELL, JOHN FRANCIS
• LEWIS CAMPBELL (1830-1908)
• CAMPBELL, REGINALD JOHN (1867— )
• CAMPBELL, THOMAS (1777—1844)

CAMPBELL (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 . His published works include: Sophocles (2nd ed., 1879); Plato, Sophistes and Politicus (1867), Theaetetus (2nd ed., 1883), Republic (with Jowett, 1894); Life and Letters of Benjamin Jowett (with E . 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 (189o); Sophocles (1896); Tragic Drama in Aeschylus, Sophocles and Shakespeare (1904); Paralipomena Sophoclea (1907) . He died on the 25th of October 1908 .