Colin Campbell (British priest)

Colin Arthur Fitzgerald Campbell (17 June 1863[1] – 6 January 1916) was the inaugural Archdeacon of Wisbech.[2]

Campbell was the tenth child, and sixth son, of Colonel Sir Edward Campbell, 2nd Baronet and Georgiana Charlotte Theophila, 2nd daughter of Sir Theophilus Metcalfe, 4th Bt.[3] He was educated at Tonbridge School and Clare College, Cambridge.[4] He was a teacher at Spondon School from 1885 to 1889; and Private Secretary to the Governor of South Australia, the Earl of Kintore from 1889 to 1892. He was ordained deacon in 1893[5] and priest in 1894.[6] After a curacy in Hartlebury he was: Senior Domestic Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1884 to 1886; Private Chaplain to the Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man from 1886 to 1893;[7] Rector of Thornham Magna cum Parva from 1895[8] to 1902; Rector of Street, Somerset from 1902[9] to 1908; Rector of Worlingworth from 1908 to 1912 (and Rural Dean of Hoxne from 1909 to 1912; and Rector of Feltwell from 1912 until his death.