CAMPBELL, GEORGE (1719-1796), Scottish theologian, was born at Aberdeen on Dec. 25, and died there on March 31, 1796. He was principal of Marischal college (1759), and pro fessor of divinity (1771). He is remembered chiefly for his Disser tation on Miracles (1763), written in reply to Hume's essay. His other more important works are Philosophy of Rhetoric (1776), and A New Translation of the Gospels (1778), with critical and explanatory notes.
See a memoir by G. S. Keith prefixed to the posthumous Lectures on Ecclesiastical History (1800) .