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Prename: | Sybil |
Surname: | Campbell |
Profession: | Judge, lawyer |
Birthday: | 10/09/1889 |
Place of birth: | Ceylon |
Date of death: | 08/29/1977 |
Place of death: | Glasgow |
Education: | Schooling in North Berwick and Paris; 1908–12 university studies (natural sciences, economics) at Girton College, Cambridge; 1920–22 studies law at the Middle Temple, London |
Career: | 1913–21 head of department at the Ministry of Food and Nutrition; 1922 approbation as a lawyer, works for the Board of Trade and at the Referees Court; 1929–30 secretary to the Building Fund Appeal, Girton College; 1930–39 secretary to the Women’s Appointment Board; 1933–42 member of the Board of Trustees, Girton College; 1939–44 Assistant Divisional Food Officer; 1945–61 judge at Tower Bridge Court (Metropolitan Police Magistrate) |
Memberships: | 1921–33 executive secretary and delegate of British Federation of University Women (BFUW), co-initiator of the Crosby Hall guest house in Chelsea; until 1977 BFUW vice president |
Biographical literature: | Patrick Polden, “The Lady of Tower Bridge: Sybil Campbell, England’s First Woman Judge,” *Women’s History Review* 8 (1999), no. 3: 505–26; personal papers, Bodleian Library, Oxford University; “Sybil Campbell,” *Oxford Dictionary of National Biography* (http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/61344) |