John Francis Campbell (Scottish Gaelic: Iain Frangan Caimbeul; Islay, 29 December 1821 – Cannes, 17 February 1885), also known as Young John of Islay (Scottish...
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John Francis Campbell (born 11 April 1957) is a retired United States Army general who was commander of the Resolute Support Mission and United States...
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John Campbell may refer to: John Francis Campbell (1821–1885), scholar of Celtic folklore and language; inventor John Edward Campbell (1862–1924), mathematician...
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Dithreach (dwarf of Glen Etive)) is a monster or giant described by John Francis Campbell in Popular Tales of the West Highlands as having a single eye in...
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The Campbell–Stokes recorder (sometimes called a Stokes sphere) is a type of sunshine recorder. It was invented by John Francis Campbell in 1853 and modified...
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The Sea-Maiden (category John Francis Campbell)
Scottish fairy tale collected by John Francis Campbell in Popular Tales of the West Highlands, listing his informant as John Mackenzie, fisherman, near Inverary...
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Molly Whuppie (category John Francis Campbell)
Fairy Tales. A Highland version, Maol a Chliobain, was collected by John Francis Campbell in Popular Tales of the West Highlands. Jacobs noted the relationship...
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The Water of Life (German fairy tale) (category John Francis Campbell)
Brothers Grimm, tale number 97. It is Aarne-Thompson type 551. John Francis Campbell noted it as a parallel of the Scottish fairy tale, The Brown Bear...
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The King Who Wished to Marry His Daughter (category John Francis Campbell)
Wished to Marry His Daughter" is a Scottish fairy tale collected by John Francis Campbell in Popular Tales of the West Highlands, listing his informant as...
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Constable. p. 228. Campbell, John Francis (auth.) and Henderson, George (trans.) (1911). The Celtic Dragon Myth. Edinburgh: John Grant. Introduction...
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Francis Campbell Bell (May 31, 1892 in Clearwater, Manitoba – May 10, 1968) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly...
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Popular Tales of the West Highlands (category John Francis Campbell)
four-volume collection of fairy tales, collected and published by John Francis Campbell, and often translated from Gaelic. Alexander Carmichael was one...
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husband of Margaret Rockefeller Strong de Larraín, Marquesa de Cuevas John Francis Campbell (1821–1885), Scottish author and scholar Martine Carol (1922–1967)...
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another saw a clan identifier. The 19th-century Celtic scholar John Francis Campbell of Islay was certain that while tartans in general were quite old...
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Francis Martin-Xavier Campbell (born 20 April 1970) is a British diplomat and academic. Since January 2020, he has been the Vice-Chancellor of the University...
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John Gregorson Campbell (1836 – 22 November 1891) was a Scottish folklorist and Free Church minister at the Tiree and Coll parishes in Argyll, Scotland...
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Nimmo. Scottish Celtic fantasy is less common, but James Hogg, John Francis Campbell (The Celtic Dragon Myth, 1911), Fiona MacLeod, William Sharp, George...
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The Ridere of Riddles (category John Francis Campbell)
Scottish fairy tale collected by John Francis Campbell in Popular Tales of the West Highlands, listing as his informant John Mackenzie, a fisherman near Inverary...
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How Ian Dìreach got the Blue Falcon (category John Francis Campbell)
collected by John Francis Campbell in Popular Tales of the West Highlands. He recorded it from a quarryman in Knockderry, Roseneath, named Angus Campbell. Andrew...
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The Battle of the Birds (category John Francis Campbell)
collected by John Francis Campbell in his Popular Tales of the West Highlands. He recorded it in 1859 from a fisherman near Inverary, John Mackenzie and...
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ISBN 978-0-85976-201-4. Campbell, John Francis; Scotland, National Library of (1985). Lamplighter and Story-teller: John Francis Campbell of Islay, 1821-1885...
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Campbell of Islay may refer to: Walter Frederick Campbell FRSE (1798–1855), Scottish politician John Francis Campbell (1821–1885), Scottish author and...
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John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll (6 August 1845 – 2 May 1914), known by the courtesy title Marquess of Lorne, by...
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John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell, PC, FRSE (15 September 1779 – 23 June 1861) was a British Liberal politician, lawyer and man of letters. The second...
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The Girl and the Dead Man (category John Francis Campbell)
The Girl and the Dead Man is a Scottish fairy tale collected by John Francis Campbell in Popular Tales of the West Highlands, listing his informant as...
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Monier-Williams (1819–1899), an Oxford scholar who taught Asian languages. John Francis Campbell (1821–1885), a Scottish author and scholar. Sir Henry James Sumner...
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The Brown Bear of the Green Glen (category John Francis Campbell)
Scottish fairy tale collected by John Francis Campbell in Popular Tales of the West Highlands, listing his informant as John MacDonald, a "Traveling Tinker"...
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The Daughter of the Skies (category John Francis Campbell)
of the King of the Skies') is a Scottish fairy tale collected by John Francis Campbell in Popular Tales of the West Highlands, listing his informant as...
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The Tale of the Queen Who Sought a Drink From a Certain Well (category John Francis Campbell)
Iarr Deoch a Tobar Araid) is a Scottish fairy tale collected by John Francis Campbell in Popular Tales of the West Highlands, listing his informant as...
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John Campbell Shairp (30 July 1819 – 18 September 1885) was a Scottish critic and man of letters. He was born at Houstoun House, Linlithgowshire, the...
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