John Francis Campbell Celtic scholar, educated at Eton

Eton College

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 and Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

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, was afterwards Secretary to the Lighthouse Commission. He was an authority on Celtic folklore, and published the bilingual Popular Tales of the West Highlands

Popular Tales of the West Highlands

Popular Tales of the West Highlands is a four-volume collection of fairy tales, collected and published by John Francis Campbell, and often translated from Gaelic as well. Alexander Carmichael was one of the main contributors...

(4 vols., 1860–62), and Gaelic various texts.

Campbell also invented the sunshine recorder that bears his name as the Campbell–Stokes recorder.