CAMPBELL, William (brother of Sir James Campbell 1790–1876). b. near Port of Monteith, Perthshire 1793; general warehouseman in Glasgow 1814; partner with his brother; active promoter of scheme for building 20 new Free churches in Glasgow and 200 additional churches in Scotland; member of Glasgow town council; proprietor of Tillichewan castle. d. 2 April 1864 in 71 year. J. A. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 131–8.
CAMPBELL, William, b. Glasgow; came to Newcastle about Nov. 1877; landlord of Duke of Wellington public house High bridge, Newcastle; exhibited himself at Egyptian hall, London, d. Newcastle 26 May 1878.
Note.—He was 76 inches round the breast and weighed 52 stone.
CAMPBELL, William George. Barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1836; comr. in lunacy 26 Nov. 1845 to 1878; hon. comr. in lunacy 1878 to death. d. 50 Ennismore gardens, London 13 June 1881 in 71 year.
CAMPERDOWN, Robert Dundas Duncan-Haldane, 1 Earl of (eld. son of Admiral Adam Duncan, 1 Viscount Duncan 1731–1804). b. 21 March 1785; succeeded as 2 Viscount 4 Aug. 1804; created Earl of Camperdown of Lundie, co. Forfar and Glenagles, co. Perth 12 Sep. 1831; K.T. 12 May 1848. d. 1 Wilton terrace, Belgrave sq. London 22 Dec. 1859.
CAMPERDOWN, Adam Duncan-Haldane, 2 Earl of (elder son of the preceding). b. Edinburgh 25 March 1812; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1834; M.P. for Southampton 1837–41, for Bath 1841–52 for Forfarshire 1854 to 22 Dec. 1859 when he succeeded as 2 Earl; obtained repeal of the Window tax by 14 and 15 Vict. cap. 36, 24 July 1851 for which he was presented with freedom of Dundee Dec. 1851; a lord of the Treasury 8 March 1855 to March 1858. d. Weston, Warwickshire 30 Jany. 1867. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 280–1.
CAMPION, George B. b. 1796; an original member of New Society (now Royal Institute) of painters in water colours 1834 to which he contributed landscapes; many of his views have been published; landscape drawing master at Royal Military academy Woolwich 1 Dec. 1841 to death; author of The adventures of a chamois hunter and of some papers on German art in Art Journal. d. Munich 7 April 1870.
CANDLISH, Rev. Robert Smith (youngest child of James Candlish of Edinburgh, teacher of medicine who d. 29 April 1806 aged 46). b. Nicolson st. Edin. 23 March 1806; ed. at Glasgow college 1818–23; private tutor at Eton Dec. 1823; licensed by presbytery of Glasgow 6 Aug. 1828; assistant minister at St. Andrew’s Glasgow 1829, at Bonhill, Dumbartonshire 1831–3; minister of St. George’s Edin. 14 Aug. 1834; D.D. Princeton coll. New Jersey 1841; left Scotch kirk 18 May 1843; had leading share in organisation of Free church; minister of St. George’s free church Edin. 1846 to death; convener of education committee of Free church 1846; moderator of General Assembly 1861; principal of New college Edin. 1862; D.D. Edin. 1865; author of Contributions towards the exposition of the book of Genesis 3 vols. 1843–62; Scripture characters and miscellanies 1850, 4 ed. 1872; Life in a risen Saviour 1858, 3 ed. 1863; Reason and revelation 1859, 2 ed. 1864; The fatherhood of God 1865, 5 ed. 1870. d. Melville st. Edinburgh 19 Oct. 1873. Memorials by Wm. Wilson 1880, portrait; Life by J. L. Watson 1882, portrait; A. Beith’s Three weeks with Dr. Candlish, 2 ed. 1874; J. A. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 139–46, portrait; Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882), portrait; Graphic viii, 407, 412 (1873), portrait.
CANE, Robert, b. Kilkenny 1807; surgeon at Kilkenny 1832 to death; M.R.C.S. England 1841; F.R.C.S. Ireland 1844; M.D. Glasgow 1842; chief promoter of repeal movement at Kilkenny, mayor 1844 and 1849; originated Celtic Union a semi-political and semi-literary society 1853; edited the Celt, a magazine, first number appeared 1 Aug. 1857; author of The Williamite and Jacobite wars in Ireland 1859. d. William st. Kilkenny 17 Aug. 1858. Irish quarterly review viii, 1004–96 (1858).
CANN, Abraham (son of Robert Cann of Colebrooke near Crediton, farmer). Baptized Colebrooke 2 Dec. 1794; wrestled with and defeated all the best wrestlers in Devonshire; beat James Warren at Eagle tavern, City road, London 21 Sep. 1826; wrestled with James Polkinghorne, champion of Cornwall for £200 a side at Tamar Green near Devonport 23 Oct. 1826 in presence of 12000 spectators when match was declared to be drawn; is the hero of H. Kingsley’s novel Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn 1859. d. Colebrooke 7 April 1864. Sporting Mag. lxvii, 165 (1826), lxix, 55, 215, 314, 344 (1827); London Mag. 1 Oct. 1826 pp. 160–3; Illust. sporting news iii, 100 (1864), 2 portraits, v, 197 (1866), portrait.