John Gordon Drummond Campbell (15 February 1864 – 11 January 1935)[1] was a British barrister and Conservative Party politician who served from 1918 to 1922 as the member of parliament (MP) for Kingston-upon-Thames in Surrey.
[2] He was the son of Colonel Archibald Neil Campbell[3] of Craignish[4] and was educated at Charterhouse School,[3][5] from where he won a scholarship to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, gaining a first-class degree in classics.
[3] A strong unionist and tariff reformer,[4] Campbell first stood for Parliament at the January 1910 general election, when he was unsuccessful in the Mansfield division of Nottinghamshire, which was then a safe seat for the Liberal Party.
[7] He contested the December 1910 election in the more-winnable Eccles division of Lancashire, but failed to oust the sitting Liberal MP Sir George Pollard.
In August 1921, Campbell was one of 31 Unionist MPs dissatisfied with the Liberal-led Coalition Government who signed a manifesto pledging that after the next election they would hold themselves independent of any of the political parties on matters concerning the economy and finance.