page_title: John Logan Campbell
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: John Logan Campbell / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: John Logan Campbell in the club dress of the Edinburgh Alleion Archers oil on canvas 75.6 x 55.9 cm
context_page_description: Sir John Logan Campbell was a prominent New Zealand public figure. He was described by his contemporaries as "the father of Auckland".
context_section_description: John Logan Campbell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 3 November 1817, a son of the Edinburgh surgeon John Campbell and his wife Catherine and grandson of the 3rd baronet of Aberuchil and Kilbryde Castle, near Dunblane, Perthshire. He had four sisters but his two elder brothers had died by the time he reached the age of two, and he became the only surviving son. Campbell graduated in medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1839 and later that year sailed for the antipodes, New South Wales, as a surgeon on the emigrant ship Palmyra.
caption: John Logan Campbell in the club dress of the Edinburgh Alleion Archers (Mungo Burton, 1838)
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