Barrister and biographer; he was a liberal MP for Stafford (1830-32), Dudley (1832-34), and Edinburgh (1834-41); created Baron Campbell (1841), lord chancellor (1859).

REFERENCES TO John Campbell, first baron Campbell:

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 28 May 1836 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 6 September 1836 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Sydney Smith to Lady Grey, [19 March 1844] in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)