J. F. Campbell

John Francis Campbell was born in 1821, the son of a ruined landowner of Islay who lost the island before the child was ten. Brought up in part by a caretaker of the house who spoke only Gaelic, he became a civil servant in London, secretary to royal commissions, and invented an instrument for measuring the heat of the sun that still bears his name. He devoted his leave to travelling the Highlands with three collectors whom he paid, and died in Cannes in 1885.

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• TalePopular Tales of the West HighlandsJ. F. Campbell · 1860LiteraturePublic domain