Henry Campbell

Sir Henry Campbell (1856 – March 6, 1924) was an Irish nationalist politician. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for South Fermanagh from 1885 to 1892, private secretary to the Irish leader Charles Stewart Parnell from 1880 to 1891, and Town Clerk of Dublin from 1893 to 1920. Knighted by the British government in January 1921, he was known as “Sir Henry Campbell” only in retirement. Biography Son of Patrick Campbell of Kilcoo, Co. Down, he began his career as a grocer's apprentice in Newry and was a member of the Catholic Young Men's Society. In 1879 he married Jenny Brewis, daughter of R. Brewis of Newcastle upon Tyne. He succeeded Timothy Healy as Parnell's private secretary in 1880 and in the 1885 general election was elected for the new parliamentary seat of South Fermanagh by 3,574 votes to the Conservative's 2,181. In the 1886 general election he was re-elected against the same opponent by only a slightly smaller majority. He was a key witness in Parnell's defence before the Parnell Commission of the late 1880s and indeed for the most part it was Campbell's writing rather than Parnell's which had been forged by Richard Pigott in the plot to discredit Parnell.