Jane Montgomery Campbell

Jane Montgomery Campbell (1817 - 15 November 1878) was a British musician and poet.

After her early years in London, where she taught singing in her father’s parish school in Paddington, she moved to Bovey Tracey near Newton Abbot, and remained there until her death from a tragic carriage accident on Dartmoor.

She published A Handbook for Singers, which contained musical exercises based on her teaching experience.

Through Charles Bere, rector of Uplowman, Tiverton, Devon, her translations of German hymns appeared in his book: A Garland of Songs in 1862, and later in his Children's Chorale Book (1869).

One of her translations contained the text written by Matthias Claudius: Wir pflügen und wir streuen, which became a classic as the quintessential harvest hymn: We Plough the Fields and Scatter.