Thomas Campbell (poet)

Thomas Campbell
Portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence c. 1810
Born	(1777-07-27)27 July 1777 Glasgow, Scotland, Kingdom of Great Britain
Died	15 June 1844(1844-06-15) (aged 66) Boulogne, France
Resting place	Westminster Abbey
Period	1790s–1840s
Spouse	Matilda Sinclair ​ ​ (m. 1803; died 1828)​
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Thomas Campbell (27 July 1777 – 15 June 1844) was a Scottish poet. He was a founder and the first President of the Clarence Club and a co-founder of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland; he was also one of the initiators of a plan to found what became University College London. In 1799 he wrote Pleasures of Hope, a traditional 18th-century didactic poem in heroic couplets. He also produced several patriotic war songs— "Ye Mariners of England", "The Soldier's Dream", "Hohenlinden" and, in 1801, The Battle of the Baltic, but was no less at home in delicate lyrics such as "At Love's Beginning".