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"SIR FRANCIS J. CAMPBELL (1832-1914), British educator, was born near Winchester, Tenn., U.S.A., Oct. 9 1832. Having been blind from the age of three, he was educated at the school for the blind at Nashville, Tenn., and later at the university of Tennessee. He also set himself to learn music, and went to the conservatoires of Leipzig and Berlin. In 1872 he became principal of the Royal Normal College and Academy for the Blind at Norwood near London, which he, with the 1st Duke of Westminster and other philanthropists, had helped to establish. He retired in 1912. Amongst his recreations was Alpine climbing, and in 1885 he ascended Mont Blanc. He died at Norwood June 30 1914.