The Wellesley Index lists the author of this essay as
Robert Campbell (1832-1912). Campbell would have been of the right age to be
at Oxford with the Morris Brotherhood. He later published several essays on
legal theory, and edited John Austin’s Lectures on jurisprudence, or The
philosophy of positive law.
Walter Gordon gives the author as Robert Calder Campbell (1798-1857). In many ways, Calder
Campbell makes more sense as the author of this piece. He was an army
officer with the East India Company, and a frequent contributor to various
periodicals (DNB). By July, Fulford was having trouble getting the
brotherhood to submit enough work to fill the pages of the magazine, and it
is possible he brought in professional writers to contribute; see for
example
Lewis Campbell’s father was also named
Robert, but he died in 1832. Lewis Campbell wrote an
Like Dixon’s
English readers in 1856 had been reading accounts of the Crimean war for
several years, and much of the subject matter would have been familiar to
readers of
First printed in
Lettres du maréchal de Saint-Arnaud,
1832-1854
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Lectures on jurisprudence, or The philosophy of positive
law, by the late John Austin. Ed. by Robert Campbell.
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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