Elizabeth (Bessie) Campbell

Elizabeth "Bessie" Campbell (1870–1964), whose heritage is Irish, was an Anglican Australian-born banjo player as well as a charity worker.

She is from an Irish and Anglican background and is the daughter of Christopher Campbell, a former employee for Madam Tussaud in Dublin, and Eliza née McMullen who was his second wife.

The year after the family returned to Sydney where she remained learning the banjo for three more months from the American Hosea Easton.

During World War I, at the crest of her career, she gave numerous performances for servicemen and the Australian Red Cross Society.

[1] Bessie died an unmarried woman on 28 April 1964 at Burwood, New South Wales and was buried in the Anglican section of Rookwood cemetery.