Robert Campbell

CAMPBELL, Robert. b. Trochaig, Ayrshire, 19 December 1814; d. Edinburgh, 29 December 1868. He was educated at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, becoming a lawyer. He began life as a member of the Church of Scotland, but became an Episcopalian and later (1852) a Roman Catholic. Before conversion to Catholicism he had shown strong signs of Anglo-Catholic tendencies. A poem or hymn entitled ‘King Charles the Martyr’ began:  What tears may wash the guilt away,That stained our land this dreadful day,Drunk with a monarch's blood, that criesAloud for vengeance from the skies. He was closely associated with Bishop Torry of St Andrews, who published The Book of Common Prayer, and...