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]

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  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.