J. W. R. Campbell Explained

Joseph William Robert Campbell (1853–1935^[1]) was an Irish Methodist minister and schoolteacher. He was born in Clough, near Newtownbutler, County Fermanagh.^[2] 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. He entered ministry in 1876.^[4] He taught at Methodist College Belfast,^[1] 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". 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.^[2] 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

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

Notes and References

1. Cole & Crookshank, p.130
2. Book: Lee, Henry. History of the Campbell family. https://archive.org/stream/historyofcampbel00newy#page/138/mode/2up . 1920. Polk. New York. 138–9. Heads of the Family in Scotland — Notable Campbells of the British Empire.
3. Book: Alexander Thom . Queen's University calendar. 16 February 2011. 1875. 97.
4. Minutes 157th Conference, p.554
5. The Christian advocate . 83 . 1277 . 30 July 1908 . Hunt & Eaton.
6. 1920 . The Christian advocate . 95 . 993 . Hunt & Eaton.
7. 1897. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Dublin University Press. Dublin. 27 (VII, 5th series). 1. 19 . Members of the Society .
8. Minutes 157th Conference, p.417
9. Cooney 2001, p.93
10. Cooney 2001, p.96
11. Web site: The Methodist Church in Ireland Act, 1915. 2 July 1915. Section 3. 16 February 2011. 26 July 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110726185728/http://www.irishmethodist.org/cmsfiles/pdf/manualoflaws/chapter28.pdf#page=2. dead.
12. Web site: The Senate of Southern Ireland, 1921 . Whyte . Nicholas . 2003 . Northern Ireland elections . 8 March 2004 . Access Research Knowledge .
13. Web site: Residents of a house 97.2 in University Road (Windsor Ward, Antrim). 1911 Census of Ireland. National Archives of Ireland. 16 February 2011.