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ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, Archbishop of Canterbury; born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Dec. 21, 1811; was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and Glasgow University, whence he passed as a Snell exhibitioner to Balliol College, Oxford. In due time he became fellow and tutor, and was one of the four tutors who in 1841 protested against Newman's "Tract 90." In 1842 he was appointed successor to Dr. Arnold as head master of Rugby, in 1849 became Dean of Carlisle, and in 1856 Bishop of London, as successor to Blomfield. Here he did much to bring the teaching of the Church home to the people. A friend of compromise, though a foe to needless innovations, he promoted moderate measures; and though strongly hostile to Colenso's views, intervened to secure him fair play. The same love of the via media, he manifested when (having declined the archbishopric of York in 1862) he was in 1868 made primate of all England by Mr. Disraeli. He assisted in composing the strifes raised by the question of Irish disestablishment, but was less successful with the Public Worship Regulation Act and the Burials Bill. He took a keen interest in missions, and greatly helped to extend and improve the organization of the Church in the colonies. The Lambeth Conference of 1878 took place under his auspices. He died Dec. 3, 1882. Among his many publications were: "The Dangers and Safe- TAKAMINE guards of Modern Theology" (1861), and "The Word of God and the Ground of Faith" (1863).