David Callender Campbell (naturalist) explained

David Callender Campbell
Birth Date:	1860
Birth Place:	Derry, Ireland
Death Place:	Derry

David Callender Campbell (1860 - 24 June 1926) was an Irish businessman and naturalist.

Life

David Callender Campbell was born in 1860, near Derry.^[1] He was one of nine children of Thomas Callender Campbell. Two of his brothers also had an interest in natural history, Thomas Vincent and William Howard.^[2] He was a senior partner in the family business of flour importing, Campbell Bros. He was the uncle of the MP David Campbell.

Campbell's interest in natural history was wide, but he had a specific interest in butterflies and birds,^[3] recording numerous occurrences and observations in the Irish Naturalist from 1892 to 1923 as well as in other journals. He established a museum in Derry, but it closed after his death. Some specimens and objects were then donated to the Ulster Museum, including Campbell's marine algae collection. It is not recorded what happened to the collections held in the botanical collections of the museum.^[4]

Campbell died in Derry in 1926.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Praeger. R. Lloyd. Some Irish Naturalists: A Biographical Note-book. National Botanic Gardens of Ireland. 30 December 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20150124125913/http://www.botanicgardens.ie/herb/books/inetok.htm. 24 January 2015. dead.
2. Book: Irwin, Clarke Huston. Campbell, William Howard. 301–302. Dictionary of National Biography, supplement. 1912.
3. Book: Desmond . Ray . Dictionary of British and Irish Botantists and Horticulturalists Including Plant Collectors, Flower Painters and Garden Designers . 1994 . Taylor & Francis Group . Milton . 9781000162868 . 125 . 2nd.
4. McMillan . N. F. . Morton . O. . A Victorian Album of Algae from the North of Ireland with Specimens Collected by William Sawers . The Irish Naturalists' Journal . 1979 . 19 . 11 . 384–387 . 25538300 . 30 December 2020 . 0021-1311.