John "Johnny" James Campbell
Johnny Campbell was one of the great stars of Scottish football of the decade bridging the end of the 19th and beginning of the twentieth centuries. He was born in Royston in Glasgow in 1872, the son of a Irish-born parents, his father a labourer and then foreman in an Ironworks.
And his football would begin locally at Possil Hawthorn then at Benburb in Govan before at eighteen joining Celtic, a forward who could play anywhere along the front-line. And by twenty he was in the first-team and in 1892 winning his first trophy, the Cup, followed in successive years by League titles, supplemented by five caps.
Then, through what was called out by Celtic manager, Willie Maley himself, as "the stupid action of a very prominent committee man", he, at twenty-three decided and was allowed to leave for Aston Villa although there was perhaps an element of necessity. He was later to be sued for breach of promise so who knows. He was to stay in Birmingham for two years, make fifty-five League appearances, scoring thirty-nine times, winning the League in the first season and League and F.A. Cup Double in the second, at which point, just as curiously as he had left Parkhead and with much pleading from again Maley, for the 1897-8 season he was back.
This time the stay was to be six years. It would include a League title in the first campaign back, followed by two more Cup medals, to which seven more caps would be added, making twelve in all. Nor would that be the end of the medal haul. In 1903, so coming up to thirty-one, he was again allowed away, this time staying closer to home at Third Lanark, which then in 1904 took the League. Moreover, as he stepped back from playing he turned to coaching at Cathkin, the Thirds, although with him not in the team, also winning the 1905 Cup Final.
And by then Johnny Campbell had also settled down domestically. In 1902 in Glasgow , described as a Wine & Spirits Merchant, he had married Isabella Rodgers. And they were to have ten children, two of the boys also playing, albeit briefly, for Third Lanark. Meanwhile their father would continue to work as a Brewer's and Distiller's Representative until a retirement, that he seems to have spent in Glasgow's southern suburbs, where he would die in 1947.. On passing he would be seventy-five, survived by Isabella for a little over a decade, before in 1958 she would be buried with him in Craigton Cemetery, there joined in time by three of their children.
Birth Locator:
1872 - Middleton Place, Royston, Glasgow
Residence Locations:
1881 - 298, Denmark St., Maryhill, Glasgow
1891 - 329, Saracen St., Maryhill, Glasgow
1902 - 40, Market St., Glasgow
1911 - 64, Roslea Drive, Camlachie Glasgow
1921 - 58, Roslea Drive, Camlachie, Glasgow
1947 - 70, Monreith Road, Newlands, Glasgow
Death Locator:
1947 - 70, Monreith Road, Newlands, Glasgow
Grave Locator:
St. Peter's Cemetery, Dalbeth, Glasgow
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