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.
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