John Francis Campbell

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John Francis Campbell (Iain Frangan Caimbeul, known in Scottish Gaelic as Iain Òg Ìle ('Young John of Islay'); born in Islay, 29 December 1821 - died in Cannes, 17 February 1885), Celtic scholar, educated at Eton and Edinburgh, was afterwards Secretary to the Lighthouse Commission. He was an authority on Celtic folk-lore, and published the bilingual Popular Tales of the West Highlands (4 vols., 1860-62), and Gaelic various texts.

Campbell also invented the sunshine recorder that bears his name as the Campbell-Stokes recorder.

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• This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton.
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