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J. W. R. Campbell

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Joseph William Robert Campbell (1853–1935[1][2]) was an Irish Methodist minister and schoolteacher. He was born in Clough, near Newtownbutler, County Fermanagh.[1] He graduated from Queen's College, Belfast in 1875 with a second-class honours degree in natural science,[3] and later gained an M.A.[4] He entered ministry in 1876.[4] He taught at Methodist College Belfast,[2] and was president there from 1908[5] to 1920.[6] In 1891 he was elected a member of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland.[7] He was secretary of the Irish Methodists' "Home Mission".[8][9] In 1900 he represented the Irish church at the British Methodist Connexion.[8] In 1899, he was one of five treasurers of the Irish Methodists' Twentieth Century Fund.[9] The Methodist Church in Ireland Act 1915 appointed him one of 36 trustees of the church.[10] He was a Commissioner of Education in Ireland and Dean of Residences at Queen's University, Belfast.[1] He was a member of the short-lived Senate of Southern Ireland of 1921–22.[11] He married Elizabeth in 1880/1; they had eight children.[12]

Sources

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  • Minutes of Several Conversations at the 157th Yearly Conference of the People Called Methodists. Methodist Church of Great Britain. 1900.
  • Cole, Richard Lee; Crookshank, Charles Henry (1960). One Methodist Church. Irish Methodist Publishing Company. Retrieved 16 February 2011.
  • Cooney, Dudley Levistone (December 2001). The Methodists in Ireland: a short history. Columba Press. ISBN 978-1-85607-335-6. Retrieved 16 February 2011.

Citations

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  1. ^ a b c Lee, Henry (1920). "Heads of the Family in Scotland — Notable Campbells of the British Empire". History of the Campbell family. New York: Polk. pp. 138–9.
  2. ^ a b Cole & Crookshank, p.130
  3. ^ Queen's University calendar. Alexander Thom. 1875. p. 97. Retrieved 16 February 2011.
  4. ^ a b Minutes 157th Conference, p.554
  5. ^ Egan, Alexander (30 July 1908). "Irish Letter". The Christian Advocate. 83. Hunt & Eaton: 1277.
  6. ^ Harte, F. E. (1920). "Irish Letter". The Christian Advocate. 95. Hunt & Eaton: 993.
  7. ^ "Members of the Society". Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. 27 (VII, 5th series) (1). Dublin: Dublin University Press: 19. 1897.
  8. ^ a b Minutes 157th Conference, p.417
  9. ^ a b Cooney 2001, p.93
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  11. ^ Whyte, Nicholas (2003). "The Senate of Southern Ireland, 1921". Northern Ireland elections. Access Research Knowledge. Archived from the original on 10 June 2011. Retrieved 8 March 2004.
  12. ^ "Residents of a house 97.2 in University Road (Windsor Ward, Antrim)". 1911 Census of Ireland. National Archives of Ireland. Retrieved 16 February 2011.