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Copies of Campbell's publications are in the historical files.\n\nMr. Campbell was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1861. He joined the consular service as a student interpreter in 1884, having achieved first place in the United Kingdom in a competitive examination which took him to study interpreting Chinese at Birkbeck College London.\n\nHis travel account of an early journey to Korea, published as a parliamentary paper, is \u2018an extraordinary account of Korean life\u2019. A trip by Campbell to Mongolia with a camel train became a rescue mission for American missionaries in Kalgan when the Boxer Rebellion caught up with them, and in the turbulent events of 1900 he joined Admiral E.H. Seymour in an attempt to relieve the Legations in Peking.\n\nHis account and books of maps of subsequent journeys by foot through Mongolia and Tibet are mentioned as a \u2018record of little known countries written by an observant traveller and naturalist\u2019 ( Blue Book No. 1. British Parliamentary Publication Sept. 1904).\n\nThe maps drawn during these journeys can be examined in the British Library and they show the incredible distances traversed in 1901 across mountains and very little known towns like Kukun Nor, Urga and Karakorum.\n\nMr. Campbell, married in 1903 to Violet Coutts of Shanghai, served as a consul in Chengdu and then Peking before retiring to England because of ill health in 1911. He died in London at the age of 65. In an additional letter delivered to the Museum in November 2002, Mrs. Lucinda Grant encloses a copy of her grandmother\u2019s birth certificate dated 1906 in Peking and explains that her mother could remember almost nothing of the details of their life there." } ], "occupation": "consul and interpreter", "projects": [ "CollectionsOnline02" ], "gender": { "value": "M" }, "admin": { "processed": 1729028437088, "sequence": 6750640, "uid": "hmc-agent-6460", "added": 1663945976240, "stream": "collections-online", "id": "agent-6460", "source": "hmc", "uuid": "edcadab8-aff0-3af2-bf48-70bb03d99cce" }, "description": [ { "type": "biography", "value": "William Charles Campbell was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1861. He joined the consular service as a student interpreter in 1884, having achieved first place in the United Kingdom in a compettitive examination which led to his studying Chinese at Birkbeck College London. His travel account of an early journey to Korea, published as a parliamentary paper, is 'an extraordinary account of the Korean life'. A trip by Campbell to Mongolia with a camel train became a rescue mission for American missionaries in Kalgan when the Boxer Rebellion caught up with them, and in the turbulent events of 1900 he joined Admiral E.H.Seymour in an attempt to relieve the legations in Peking. His account and books of maps of susequent journeys on foot through Mongolia and Tibet are mentioned as a 'record of little known countries written by an observant traveller and naturalist' (Blue Book No. 1. British Parliamentary Publication Sept. 1904). The maps drawn duirng these journeys can be examined in the British Library and they show the incredible distances travelled in 1901 across mountains and very little known towans such as Kukum Nor, Urga and Karakorum. Mr Campbell, married in 1903 to Violet Coutts of Shanghai, served as a consul in Chengdu and then Peking before retiring to England because of ill health in 1911. 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