CAMPBELL, George, D.D., a distinguished theologian and philosopher, was born at Aberdeen, December 25, 1719. He was educated at the grammar-school of his native place; but being designed by his friends for the legal profession, he was immediately after removed to Edinburgh, and apprenticed to a writer to the signet. Long before the term of his apprenticeship had expired, he had been in the habit of attending the divinity lectures at the university; and when he had fulfilled his engagement, he enrolled himself as a regular student in the divinity hall at Aberdeen, attending the lectures at both colleges. Having received license from the presbytery of that city in 1746, he was two years later presented to the living of Banchory-Ternan, where he continued to labour till 1757. From Banchory-Ternan he was translated to Aberdeen, and soon afterwards appointed Principal of Marischal college. In 1763 he published his well-known Dissertation in answer to Hume's Treatise on Miracles, a work which procured for him the respect of his antagonist, and still ranks as a valuable contribution to the literature of apologetic theology. On being elected professor of divinity in Marischal college he resigned his ministerial charge in the city, and devoted himself entirely to his professional duties. In 1771 he published a Sermon on the Spirit of the Gospel; and five years later, the Philosophy of Rhetoric, part of which was written at Banchory-Ternan. In the discussion of the leading political questions of the day, Principal Campbell took a prominent part. In his sermon on the Duty of Allegiance he severely condemned the American revolutionary war; and still later he rendered himself peculiarly unpopular by his zealous advocacy of the Catholic Emancipation bill, in an Address to the People of Scotland on that subject. The last of his works which he lived to complete was a Translation of the Four Gospels, with Dissertations and Notes, which is valuable as one of the few native contributions to exegetical science. He was compelled by the state of his health to resign his professorship in 1795, on which occasion he received a pension of £300 a-year from the govern-
ment. In the following year he died of a paroxysm of Campbell. palsy in the 77th year of his age. His Lectures on Ecclesiastical History were published after his death. These consist entirely of the prelections which he had delivered to the students on that subject.