John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell (1779 to 1861) was a Scottish born lawyer, politician and writer who, after being called to the bar in 1806, held a series of senior legal offices in England, serving as Solicitor General from 1832 to 1834, Attorney General in 1834 and again from 1835 to 1841, briefly as Lord High Chancellor of Ireland for sixteen days in 1841, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1846 to 1850, Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench from 1850 to 1859, and finally Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1859 until his death in 1861. Born in Cupar, Fife, the son of a parish minister, he was associated with major legal reforms including the Wills Act 1837 and various changes to property law, sponsored the Obscene Publications Act 1857, and wrote biographical works on the lord chancellors and chief justices of England. He married Mary Scarlett in 1821 and survived her by little more than a year after her death in 1860. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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What is Lord Campbell's Act?
The Fatal Accidents Act 1846.
Lord Campbell's Act is the popular name of the Fatal Accidents Act 1846. John Campbell took up the cause of the families of railway accident victims and introduced the measure and steered it through the Commons.
What did the Obscene Publications Act 1857 change?
It made selling obscene material a statutory offence and let courts seize and destroy it.
Campbell was the main sponsor of the Obscene Publications Act 1857. It made the sale of obscene material a statutory offence for the first time, and it gave the courts power to seize and destroy offending material.
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John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell, PC, FRSE was a British Liberal politician, lawyer and man of letters.
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John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell (1779 to 1861) was a Scottish born lawyer, politician and writer who, after being called to the bar in 1806, held a series of senior legal offices in England, serving as Solicitor General from 1832 to 1834, Attorney General in 1834 and again from 1835 to 1841, briefly as Lord High Chancellor of Ireland for sixteen days in 1841, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1846 to 1850, Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench from 1850 to 1859, and finally Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1859 until his death in 1861.
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John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell, PC, FRSE was a British Liberal politician, lawyer and man of letters.
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was a British Liberal politician
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Wikidata Q332738, P569 date of birth claim (year)
P569 (date of birth): 1779
Wikidata Q332738, P569 date of birth claim (full date)
P569 (date of birth): 1779-09-15
Wikidata Q332738, P570 date of death claim (year)
P570 (date of death): 1861
Wikidata Q332738, P570 date of death claim (full date)
P570 (date of death): 1861-06-23
Wikidata Q332738, P19 place of birth claim
P19 (place of birth): Cupar
Wikidata Q332738, P20 place of death claim
P20 (place of death): London
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