. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. his o\vriobservations in South Africa. Walks of Usefulness. CAINIPBELL, Thomas, a distinguished poet,the most perfect lyrical writer of his time, wasborn at Glasgow on the 27th of July, Campbell, the father of the poet, wasthe youngest of the three sons of the laird of Kir-nan, and was born in 1710. He was educated forthe mercantile profession, and early in life wentto America, where he entered into business, andresided many years at Falmouth, in
. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. his o\vriobservations in South Africa. Walks of Usefulness. CAINIPBELL, Thomas, a distinguished poet,the most perfect lyrical writer of his time, wasborn at Glasgow on the 27th of July, Campbell, the father of the poet, wasthe youngest of the three sons of the laird of Kir-nan, and was born in 1710. He was educated forthe mercantile profession, and early in life wentto America, where he entered into business, andresided many years at Falmouth, in he had the pleasure of receiving his brotherArchibald, on his first quitting Jamaica to settlein the United States, and there also, about tenyears afterwards, he formed an intimate acquaint-ance with Daniel Campbell, a clansman, but norelation, with whom he returned to Glasgow, andthere entered into partnership with him as Vir-ginian traders, under the firm of Alexander andDaniel Campbell. For some years their businessprospered, and both partners were highly esteemedas men of probity and experience. Dsuiiel. the. THOMAS CAM 1 b h LI. , 579 THOMAS. junior partuor, luul a sister uaiiied ilargarct,whom Alexander took to be his wife, and sliebecame tlie mother of the jxiet. They were mar-ried in the cathedral church of Glasgow on the12th of January 1756. At this time Mrs. Camp-bell was about twenty, while licr husband hadreached the mature age of forty-fi\e. They hadeight sons and three daughters, and the poet, whowas the youngest of the family, was born ?whenhis father liad reached his 67th year, the age atwhich he himself died. The outbreak of the war with America in 1775,two years before the poets birth, ruined the Vir-ginia trade, and many of the Glasgow merchantssuffered severely in their business and others, the old and respectable firm ofAlexander and Daniel Campbell sustained lossesfrom which they never recovered, and saw verynearly the whole
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