page_title: Thomas Vincent Campbell
section_title: Life and work
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Vincent Campbell / Life and work
caption_attribution_description: Dr Thomas Vincent Campbell at the Ralph Wardlaw Hospital in Chikkaballapur
context_page_description: Thomas Vincent Campbell was a physician, missionary and an entomological collector in India. He helped establish sanatoria for tuberculosis treatment in southern India and the Ralph Wardlaw Thompson memorial hospital at Chikkaballapur and was awarded a Kaiser-i-Hind for his contributions to the health of the poor. His collections of Hemiptera from India resulted in the descriptions of many new species of bug, several of which were named after him.
context_section_description: Campbell was born in Derry in 1863, one of nine siblings born to businessman Thomas Callender Campbell and his wife, who was of Scottish origin came from Leith. He went to school in Derry and then graduated Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MB) from Edinburgh in 1888 where his older brother William Howard Campbell (1859 - 1910) had also studied around the same time. Both brothers excelled in athletics for which they were well known at the university. The brothers also had a family natural history collection at home in Derry that was considered to be impressive. Thomas followed his brother in 1890 to work with the London Missionary Society at Jammalamadugu in Cuddapah district in India. 
  He married physician Florence Gertrude (born 1866, daughter of John William Longbottom and his second wife Elizabeth) of Halifax on 29 August 1891. Together they worked in India but exposure to patients led to him contracting tuberculosis and he returned to England to convalesce. Treated by his wife, he recovered and they returned to India to establish the Ralph Wardlaw Thompson memorial hospital in Chikkaballapura. Wardlaw Thompson (1842-1916) was a Bellary-born missionary who had served as the foreign secretary of the London Missionary Society from 1881 to 1914. Campbell's wife worked on the health of women while his work included the treatment of nearly a thousand cases of cataract. In 1908 he was awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind medal for his services to public health. He also proposed the establishment of sanatoria for the treatment of tuberculosis and this resulted in the founding of several including the Madanapalle TB sanatorium. After his retirement, he settled in Edinburgh where he joined the  Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh in 1919 serving as its treasurer from 1922 until his death.
caption: Campbell at the Ralph Wardlaw Thompson hospital in Chikkaballapur, c. 1912
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