John Gordon Drummond Campbell
John Gordon Drummond Campbell (15 February 1864 – 11 January 1935) 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. Early life He was the son of Colonel Archibald Neil Campbell of Craignish and was educated at Charterhouse School, from where he won a scholarship to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, gaining a first-class degree in classics. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1890, and was one of His Majesty's Inspector of Schools from 1892 to 1909. He worked for two or three years as educational adviser to King Chulalongkorn of Siam, writing a book Siam in the Twentieth Century (1902). Parliamentary career A strong unionist and tariff reformer, 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. 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. He won a seat on his third attempt, when he was elected at the 1918 general election as