Who's Who in the Far East/CAMPBELL, Rev. W.

3629650Who's Who in the Far East — CAMPBELL, Rev. W.

CAMPBELL, Rev. W. (TAINAN), F.R.G.S.; Senior member, English Presbyterian Mission, Formosa:. b. April 17, 1841; in. Janet Hervey, d. of John Alston, of Aldbury (W. Aus.) and g. d. of J. Alston. Hon. Treasurer of Glasgow Royal Asylum for the Blind. Educ.: Glasgow University and Free Church College, Glasgow: arrived in Formosa, Dec. 10, 1871; Life Fellow R.G.S.; Member of Royal Asiatic and Japan Societies, Publications: St. Matthew's Gospel in Sinkang-Formosan, Dutch and English. edited from the 1661 version of R. Graving, 1888; Reading-book and:St. Matthew's Gospel in simplified Roman letters for blind readers of the Amoy vernacular, 1888; an Account of Missionary Success in Formosa, from London edition of 165J, with copious notes of recent work in the Island, 1888; Readingbook, and a Translation of the Sacred Edict, adapted for Blind Chinese readers in Formosa, from the dot-system of M. Braille, 1889; the Articles of Christian Instruction in Favorlang-Formosan, Dutch and English, with Psalmanazar's Dialogue between a Japanese and it Formosan, and Happart's Favorlang Vocabulary, 1893; Formosa under the Dutch, described from Contemporary Records, with Explanatory Notes and a Bibliography of the Island, 1903. Address: Tainan, Formosa.