Mrs Lewis Campbell
(1837-1920)
4 September 1862

 

Volume 9, page 141, sitting number 11,562.

[The sitter is identified as ‘Mrs L. Campbell’ in the Silvy daybooks. The previous entry is Reverend Lewis Campbell, presumably this sitter’s husband.]

Born in 1837 in the London district of St Pancras, Frances Pitt Andrews was the only daughter of Thomas Andrews, a Serjeant-at-Law. She was baptised at St Pancras on 16 August 1837.

She appears on the 1851 census living with her widowed mother Amelia and her younger brother Percy at 17 Montpelier Villas in Brighton.

On 11 May 1858 at Brighton ‘Frances, only daughter of the late Mr Serjeant Andrews, [married] ‘the Rev. Lewis Campbell, vicar of Milford, Hants’ (Berkshire Chronicle, 15 May 1858).

Reverend Campbell appears on the 1861 census living at the Vicarage in Milford. Frances Pitt Campbell was visiting her mother in Brighton on the night of the census but her brother Percy Andrews, a ‘Commoner of Ball. Coll. Oxon.’ and a ‘Student of Law’ was one of five Oxbridge pupils who were cramming under Reverend Campbell’s tuition at the Vicarage.

The Clergy List of 1866 records Reverend Campbell as ‘Professor of Greek in the University of St Andrew’s [sic], Scotland.’

‘Professor Lewis Campbell, Greek Professor in the University of St Andrews, is retiring at the close of the present college session. The Professor has held the chair since 1863’ (Leeds Mercury, 16 January 1892).

‘The death, announced yesterday, in his seventy-ninth year, of the Rev. Lewis Campbell, Emeritus Greek Professor in the University of St Andrews, is attracting attention to a man of considerable personality. He was at Balliol College in the time of the great Jowett, and was one of his most ardent admirers. For forty years Professor Campbell taught the language of Demosthenes in the ancient Fife city. When, says a contemporary, he left St Andrews, the Professor went to live at Alassio, on the Riviera, where he soon gathered round him new friends to whom he was in the habit of reading selections from Shakespeare and the great classic writers.' (Greenock Telegraph and Clyde Shipping Gazette, 30 October 1908).

Mrs Frances Pitt Campbell, late of Sant Andrea, Alassio, Italy, and 92 Inverna Court, Kensington’ died on 5 December 1920 at Sant Andrea, leaving an estate valued at £11,667.