John Campbell (Scottish surgeon)

In that capacity he was the last president of the College to sit ex officio as a member of the Edinburgh Town Council, so ending a tradition dating from 1583.

[1] He was the last president of the RCSEd to sit as an unelected member of the Edinburgh Town Council, so ending a tradition dating from 1583.

[1] He became consulting surgeon to the RIE in 1832 alongside Sir George Ballingall, who held the chair of Military Surgery in the University, the first of its kind in the British Isles.

[5] The junior surgeons in the RIE at that time were a gifted group of young men, who would become famous in their own right.

[4] In 1811 his sister Eleanora married John Barclay, the Edinburgh anatomy teacher who had been employed as tutor to the Campbell household for three years from 1789.