BORN in Tradeston, educated at Gorbals Territorial School and Glasgow University, a member of the firm of Messrs. Andrew Campbell & Co., shipwrights and engineers, representative of Gorbals Ward in the Town Council, and Magistrate of the city, Bailie Campbell is a typical Glasgow citizen. In the end of the eighteenth century his great-grandfather was a merchant and shipowner in Jamaica Street. In the Corporation he has been a member of many committees, but has also many other enthusiasms. He is a wide reader in science and philosophy, a traveller in many lands, and an enthusiastic yachtsman; and among other recreations he is a golfer, an equestrian, and no mean musician. An Imperialist Liberal in politics, he is a president of the Clan Campbell Society, president of the Glasgow Burns Club, and a member of Glasgow Philosophical Society, the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, the Royal Clyde Yacht Club, the Merchants' House, the Chamber of Commerce, the Incorporation of Wrights, the Scottish Temperance League, and the Old Glasgow Club. He is an F.S.A. Scot., a member of the British Association, a governor of the Glasgow School of art, a director of the Glasgow Samaritan Hospital, vice-president of the Glasgow branch of the British Astronomical Society, a director of the Glasgow Celtic Society, a director of the Sir Walter Scott Club, and R.W.M. of the Thistle Lodge of Free Masons, Glasgow.

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