Born 1 September 1861, ninth son of Hugh Campbell, MRCS 1845, MD St Andrews 1863, of 23 Wimpole Street and of Hampstead and Margaretting, Essex, and Henrietta Johnston, his wife. He was educated at University College School, London, and at Edinburgh University, where he graduated MB in 1884. He also studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, and in Dublin and Paris. He served as clinical assistant at the Royal London (Moorfields) and Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospitals, and at the Golden Square Throat Hospital. Campbell practised as an ophthalmologist in London and was appointed assistant surgeon, eventually becoming consulting surgeon, to the Western Ophthalmic Hospital, Marylebone Road. He joined the RAMC on the outbreak of the first world war, was gazetted captain on 25 July 1917 and subsequently promoted major. As an army ophthalmic specialist he served for eighteen years, and was awarded the OBE in 1932 for this service. Campbell married Rosamund, daughter of Colonel George Carson Gribbon, AMS (Johnston's *Roll* No 5867). There were no children. After retirement he lived at Millfield, Wittersham, Tenterden, Kent, and died on 10 March 1943. Publications:- "Advancement and tenotomy in cases of squint." *Lancet*, 1912, 2, 366. "Hysterical amblyopia." *Brit med J*, 1915, 2, 434.