Author talk:Robert Campbell
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The first [poetical manuscript] was the work of the late Robert Campbell, Esq., of Skerrington, a Scottish advocate, who shortly after making a translation of a series of hymns from the Breviary, the Paris Breviary and the Missal in 1850— versions which were accounted by o mean authority as the very best which had then appeared amongst Protestants — submitted himself to the Catholic Church. The residue of his life was spent in good works as a thank-offering for the blessing of conversion ; and he died a devoted son of the Church in 1868.
—Orby Shipley, Annus Sanctus: Hymns of the Church for the Ecclesiastical Year [1], 1884, p.14
CAMPBELL OF SKERRINGTON. CAMPBELL, ROBERT, Esq. of Skerrington, Kilmarnock, b. 19 Dec, 1814; m. 25 Jan, 1843, Anne, only surviving dau. of the late John Carr, Esq. of Dunston Hall, co. Durham. Mr Campbell is a magistrate for Ayrshire.
—John Burke, Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland [2], 1847, p.183.