This Peter Campbell is the Greenock one, who apart from two years, when football took him to England, spent all his life in the Renfrewshire town. But his people were not from the banks of the Clyde. His father, a labourer, came from Kilmartin in rural Argyll and his mother from Riccarton. But Peter was born in Ingleston and grew up by the docks starting as a Boiler-Maker to trade, whilst a football career developed, initially somewhat unusually.  

He began with the junior club, the Greenock Volunteers but at nineteen, for reasons unknown, switched loyalty to Glasgow Perthshire in the city's Maryhill. And it was from there, still a junior, a left- or centre-half, a Scottish centre-half, that in 1895 he was recruited South to Burton Swifts, then playing in England's Second Division, where he stay with some success for fifteen months. However, meantime Greenock Morton had been a founding member in 1893 of the Scottish Second Division but had struggled. At the end of the first season it had had to seek re-election, had given Peter a trial and apparently knocked him back, had managed to claw its way to mid-table but dropped down once more and must have renewed interest enough for him to return, have two very successful seasons at Cappielow reaching third place in 1898 and be personally capped off literally by a single, international start, a 5-2 victory over Wales.

However, Campbell had not been forgotten on the banks of the Trent and Burton was to able to tempt him back once more for the 1898-99 season. But again he did not stay, returning home perhaps this time with an ulterior motive. In 1900 at still only twenty-five he married Agnes Shaw, born in Airdrie by living locally. And they would soon have their first child, a boy, who died in infancy but was followed, as he had resumed at Morton for five seasons, by two daughters, then, post retirement at not quite thirty in 1904, a son. 

Agnes and Peter Campbell would remain in Greenock for the remainder of their lives. He would die there in 1948 at the age of seventy-three, she still in the town at seventy-four in 1951.