Jane Montgomery Campbell

1817–1878

Introduction

Biography

Jane was the daugh­ter of A. Mont­go­me­ry Camp­bell (rec­tor of St. James’ Church, Pad­ding­ton, Hyde Park, Lon­don).

She con­trib­ut­ed a num­ber of hymns trans­lat­ed from Ger­man to Charles S. Bere’s Gar­land of Songs; or, an Eng­lish Lied­er­kranz (1862), and to his Child­ren’s Chor­al Book (1869).

She al­so pub­lished A Hand­book for Sing­ers (Lon­don: So­ci­ety for the Pro­mo­tion of Chris­tian Know­ledge). This small work con­tains the mu­sic­al ex­er­cis­es she taught in her fa­ther’s par­ish school.