OBITUARY.
JOHN M. CAMPBELL.
News has been received by cable of the death, at Rangoon Hospital, on Friday, April 25, from black water fever, of John Morrow Campbell, B.Sc., one of the earliest pupils of the Timaru High School. Born near Woodbury in December 1865, John M. Campbell’s education began there. In 1878 the family removed to Timaru, where deceased attended the Main School, and then the High School, passing Matriculation with the first High School group, who had to sit at Dunedin for the examination. His prizes won at sports and studies included a silver cup. Going “Home” in 1883, he became a student at Glasgow University, later being a medallist in botany, and a Donaldson scholar, gaining the degree of B.Sc. For a time he was an assistant in chemistry at the Glasgow College of Science and Art, then he went with a mining expedition to Persia, and for his map of the territory was made a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. The Gold Coast (West Africa) saw many years service, not only seeking gold, but constructing railways for transport of huge mahogany logs, also suitable dwellings, and store-houses, nursing others who took the dreaded fever, even acting as a lay reader in the last rites of at least one case. Though several times stricken with malaria, and twice with black-water symptoms, a good constitution and change of air pulled him through. America saw him work for a short time, also Australia, but since early in the war years his work has been in Lower Burma, latterly among the Mergui Islands. His thesis on Laterite, written in 1917, brought him the D. degree (Glasgow). Over a year and a-half ago he made good recovery from a serious operation at Rangoon, being afterwards much improved. He leaves a widow and daughter in London, England, son (Toronto), also two sisters in New Zealand, Miss Eliza Campbell, M.A., Auckland, and Mrs E. J. Lawry, Invercargill, to mourn their loss. -Timaru Herald, 7/5/1930.
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