John Francis Campbell

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John Francis Campbell (1822 - 1885), celtic scholar, educated at Eton and Edin., was afterwards Sec. to the Lighthouse Commission. He was an authority on Celtic folk-lore, and published Popular Tales of the West Highlands (4 vols., 1860-62), and various Gaelic texts.

Campbell also invented the sunshine recorder that bears his name as the Campbell-Stokes recorder.

This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton.