J. W. R. Campbell

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][11] 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.^[12] He married Elizabeth in 1880/1; they had eight children.^[13]

References

• 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 (2001-12). The Methodists in Ireland: a short history. Columba Press. ISBN 978-1-85607-335-6. Retrieved 16 February 2011. Check date values in: |date= (help)

1. 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. Cole & Crookshank, p.130
3. Queen's University calendar. Alexander Thom. 1875. p. 97. Retrieved 16 February 2011.
4. Minutes 157th Conference, p.554
5. "The Christian advocate". 83. Hunt & Eaton. 30 July 1908: 1277.
6. "The Christian advocate". 95. Hunt & Eaton. 1920: 993.
7. "Members of the Society". Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Dublin: Dublin University Press. 27 (VII, 5th series) (1): 19. 1897.
8. Minutes 157th Conference, p.417
9. Cooney 2001, p.93
10. Cooney 2001, p.96
11. "The Methodist Church in Ireland Act, 1915" (PDF). 2 July 1915. pp. Section 3. Retrieved 16 February 2011.
12. Whyte, Nicholas (2003). "The Senate of Southern Ireland, 1921". Northern Ireland elections. Access Research Knowledge. Retrieved 8 March 2004.
13. "Residents of a house 97.2 in University Road (Windsor Ward, Antrim)". 1911 Census of Ireland. National Archives of Ireland. Retrieved 16 February 2011.