John campbell biography

John Campbell (born 1947) is a British political writer and biographer.
John Campbell is a British political writer and biographer.
John Campbell is a British political writer and biographer.

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John Campbell (biographer)

British political writer and biographer

John Campbell (born 1947) is a British political writer and biographer. He has 10 grandchildren and 2 biological children and 2 step children. He was educated at Charterhouse and the University of Edinburgh^[1] from where he gained a Ph.D. in politics in 1975.^[2]

His works include biographies of Lloyd George, F. E. Smith, Aneurin Bevan, Roy Jenkins, Edward Heath, and Margaret Thatcher, the last consisting of two volumes, The Grocer's Daughter (2000) and The Iron Lady (2003).^[1] A one-volume abridgment prepared by David Freeman (a historian of Britain teaching at California State University, Fullerton), entitled The Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher, From Grocer's Daughter to Prime Minister, was published in 2009 and reissued in paperback in 2011. He was awarded the NCR Book Award for his biography of Heath in 1994.

He has also written, If Love Were All ... the story of Frances Stevenson & David Lloyd George (2006) and Pistols At Dawn: Two Hundred Years of Political Riva

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Margaret Thatcher Vol 2

The first volume of John Campbell's biography of Margaret Thatcher was described by Frank Johnson in the Daily Telegraph as 'much the best book yet written about Lady Thatcher'. That volume, The Grocer's Daughter, described Mrs Thatcher's childhood and early career up until the 1979 General Election which carried her into Downing Street. This second volume covers the whole eleven and a half years of her momentous premiership. Thirteen years after her removal from power, this is the first comprehensive and fully researched study of the Thatcher Government from its hesitant beginning to its dramatic end. Campbell draws on the mass of memoirs and diaries of Mrs Thatcher's colleagues, aides, advisers and rivals, as well as on original material from the Ronald Reagan archive, shedding fascinating new light on the Reagan-Thatcher 'special relationship', and on dozens of interviews. The Iron Lady will confirm John Campbell's Margaret Thatcher as one of the greatest political biographies of recent times.

First published:

2003

Published by:

Jonathan Cap
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Quick Info

Born

27 May 1862
Lisburn, Co Antrim, Ireland

Died

1 October 1924
Oxford, England

Summary

Campbell is remembered for the Campbell-Baker-Hausdorff theorem which gives a formula for multiplication of exponentials in Lie algebras.

Biography

John Campbell's father was also named John Campbell. He was a medical doctor who had a practice in Lisburn. John junior, the subject of this biography, was educated at home when he was young. He then entered the Methodist College in Belfast where he completed his school education before entering Queen's College, Belfast.

The Queen's University in Belfast had been established in 1845 and Campbell felt great loyalty towards this institution. As Elliott writes in [2]:-
He always remained a very loyal Ulsterman, in every sense, and expressed warm gratitude to those under whom he studied in his first university.
Campbell graduated from the Queen's University in 1884 and won a scholarship to study at the University of Oxford in England. He entered Hertford College, at that time a new College which had been founded