Francis Maule Campbell (c. 1844 – 30 December 1920) was a significant figure in the history of association and rugby football.
The purpose of the meetings, started on 26 October 1863, were as the proposition from Barnes stated: It is advisable that a football association should be formed for the purpose of settling a code of rules for the regulation of the game of footballIt had always been Blackheath's intention to adopt for the new association, a form of the Rugby Rules.
Campbell suggested an adjournment of the meeting "until the vacation so that the representatives of the schools who were members of the Association may be enabled to attend".
[citation needed] Campbell's motion was defeated by 13 votes to 4 and the original proposal to expunge rules 9 and 10 was carried.
At the sixth and final meeting on 8 December 1863, with the formation of the Football Association agreed, and with the election of A. Pember as President, E.C.
Ironically, three years later in December 1866, following an abandoned match between Blackheath and Richmond, both clubs decided to remove hacking from their game.
Three years after Jane's death in 1899, Campbell married Maria Louisa, widow of E. W. Yeeles of Bathford, Somerset and daughter of the late H. B. Walmsley of Acton.