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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="honorific-prefix" style="font-size: 77%; font-weight: normal;">Lieutenant-Colonel</div><div class="fn">Walter Campbell-Smith</div><div class="honorific-suffix" style="font-size: 77%; font-weight: normal;"><span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"></span> <span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire" title="Order of the British Empire">CBE</a></span> <span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Military_Cross" title="Military Cross">MC</a></span> <span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Territorial_Decoration" title="Territorial Decoration">TD</a></span></span></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Walter Campbell Smith</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1887-11-30</span>)</span>30 November 1887<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Solihull" title="Solihull">Solihull</a>, Warwickshire, UK</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">6 December 1988<span style="display:none">(1988-12-06)</span> (aged 101)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Royal_Tunbridge_Wells" title="Royal Tunbridge Wells">Tunbridge Wells</a>, Kent, UK</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Corpus_Christi_College,_Cambridge" title="Corpus Christi College, Cambridge">Corpus Christi College, Cambridge</a>, B.A. (1909)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data">Studies of rocks from Antarctica and the ocean floor</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Susan_Finnegan" title="Susan Finnegan">Susan Finnegan</a> (m. 1936)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Murchison_Medal" title="Murchison Medal">Murchison Medal</a>, 1945</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><b>Scientific career</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fields</th><td class="infobox-data category">Mineralogy and petrology</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Institutions</th><td class="infobox-data">British Museum (Natural History)</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Walter Campbell Smith</b> <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"></span> <span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire" title="Order of the British Empire">CBE</a></span> <span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Military_Cross" title="Military Cross">MC</a></span> <span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Territorial_Decoration" title="Territorial Decoration">TD</a></span></span> (30 November 1887 – 6 December 1988) was a British <a href="/wiki/Mineralogy" title="Mineralogy">mineralogist</a> and <a href="/wiki/Petrology" title="Petrology">petrologist</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Murchison_Medal" title="Murchison Medal">Murchison Medal</a> in 1945, and was president of the <a href="/wiki/Geological_Society_of_London" title="Geological Society of London">Geological Society of London</a> from 1955 to 1956.<sup id="cite_ref-auto3_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto3-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography_and_career">Biography and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Walter_Campbell_Smith&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Campbell Smith was born in <a href="/wiki/Solihull" title="Solihull">Solihull</a>, in 1887, and attended <a href="/wiki/Solihull_School" title="Solihull School">Solihull School</a> until 1906. He went to university in Cambridge, where he studied crystallography and mineralogy at <a href="/wiki/Corpus_Christi_College,_Cambridge" title="Corpus Christi College, Cambridge">Corpus Christi College</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Woolley_Stephenson_Stonehouse_Obituary_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Woolley_Stephenson_Stonehouse_Obituary-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He graduated in 1910, with first class honours.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After taking the examinations for entry to the civil service, Campbell Smith was appointed to an assistantship in the department of minerals at the <a href="/wiki/British_Museum" title="British Museum">British Museum (Natural History)</a> (now the <a href="/wiki/Natural_History_Museum,_London" title="Natural History Museum, London">Natural History Museum</a>) in 1910.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He took up his position the day after his 23rd birthday.<sup id="cite_ref-auto2_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto2-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the competition for the post, Campbell Smith was placed above geologist <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Holmes" title="Arthur Holmes">Arthur Holmes</a>, who later pioneered <a href="/wiki/Radiometric_dating" title="Radiometric dating">radiometric dating</a>, on the basis of his better performance in Latin.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Campbell Smith worked at the British Museum for the rest of his career, with the exception of two periods of military service. From 1914 to 1918, he served with the <a href="/wiki/Artists_Rifles" title="Artists Rifles">Artists' Rifles</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Engineers" title="Royal Engineers">Royal Engineers</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and again, from 1939 to 1941.<sup id="cite_ref-Woolley_Stephenson_Stonehouse_Obituary_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Woolley_Stephenson_Stonehouse_Obituary-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1937, he was appointed <a href="/wiki/Keeper_of_Mineralogy,_Natural_History_Museum" title="Keeper of Mineralogy, Natural History Museum">Keeper of Mineralogy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Nature_1937_Lieut.-Colonel_W._Campbell_Smith_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nature_1937_Lieut.-Colonel_W._Campbell_Smith-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When he was appointed deputy chief scientific officer for the museum in 1948, he featured in the <i><a href="/wiki/Illustrated_London_News" class="mw-redirect" title="Illustrated London News">Illustrated London News</a></i> as one of the personalities of the week.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He retired from the museum in 1952.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Campbell Smith began his museum work on the collections from <a href="/wiki/Robert_Falcon_Scott" title="Robert Falcon Scott">Scott's</a> <a href="/wiki/Terra_Nova_Expedition" title="Terra Nova Expedition"><i>Terra Nova</i> expeditions</a> from 1910 to 1913. In all, he published nine papers on the metamorphic and igneous rocks from <a href="/wiki/McMurdo_Sound" title="McMurdo Sound">McMurdo Sound</a> to <a href="/wiki/Victoria_Land" title="Victoria Land">Victoria Land</a>, three between 1921 and 1924; the remainder from 1954 to 1963, after he had retired.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also curated the foreign rock collection of the Geological Society of London, which had been acquired in 1911. Later he worked on <a href="/wiki/Carbonatites" class="mw-redirect" title="Carbonatites">carbonatites</a> from <a href="/wiki/Malawi" title="Malawi">Malawi</a> (then called <a href="/wiki/Nyasaland" title="Nyasaland">Nyasaland</a>), and recognised their volcanic origins.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other topics he worked on included stone hand axes, meteorites, and the geology of rocks collected from the sea floor.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his retirement, Campbell Smith continued to work in the museum, and he published his last paper, on the history of mineralogy research in the museum, at the age of 94.<sup id="cite_ref-auto2_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto2-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-auto_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Campbell Smith was secretary of the <a href="/wiki/Geological_Society_of_London" title="Geological Society of London">Geological Society of London</a> from 1921 to 1932.<sup id="cite_ref-Nature_1937_Lieut.-Colonel_W._Campbell_Smith_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nature_1937_Lieut.-Colonel_W._Campbell_Smith-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 1921 to 1924, he was a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.<sup id="cite_ref-Nature_1937_Lieut.-Colonel_W._Campbell_Smith_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nature_1937_Lieut.-Colonel_W._Campbell_Smith-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was president of the <a href="/wiki/Mineralogical_Society_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland" title="Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland">Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland</a> from 1945 to 1948,<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and president of the Geological Society from 1955 to 1956.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-auto3_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto3-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Military_career">Military career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Walter_Campbell_Smith&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Military career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Campbell Smith began military service in 1914 as a lance-corporal in the 28th battalion, known as the Artists' Rifles.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1915, he was seconded to the 4th Battalion of the Special Brigade of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Engineers" title="Royal Engineers">Royal Engineers</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Nature_1937_Lieut.-Colonel_W._Campbell_Smith_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nature_1937_Lieut.-Colonel_W._Campbell_Smith-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The special brigade recruited volunteers with a background in chemistry, and were responsible for the British chemical warfare projects during the <a href="/wiki/World_War_1" class="mw-redirect" title="World War 1">First World War</a>. This included Campbell Smith, with his mineralogical training. He worked under <a href="/wiki/Charles_Foulkes_(British_Army_officer)" title="Charles Foulkes (British Army officer)">Charles Foulkes</a>, and remained in the special brigade for the rest of the war.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In June 1916, he was in charge of P and Q company, at the front at <a href="/wiki/Blairville,_Pas-de-Calais" title="Blairville, Pas-de-Calais">Blairville</a> - <a href="/wiki/Ficheux" title="Ficheux">Ficheux</a>, when the special brigade launched gas attack.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the end of the war, Campbell Smith held the rank of lieutenant colonel. He continued to volunteer with the Artists' Rifles after the war. In 1935, he retired with the rank of <a href="/wiki/Brevet_(military)" title="Brevet (military)">brevet lieutenant colonel</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Nature_1937_Lieut.-Colonel_W._Campbell_Smith_7-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nature_1937_Lieut.-Colonel_W._Campbell_Smith-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">Second World War</a>, Campbell Smith volunteered once again for service, and from 1939 to 1941 he was second-in-command of <a href="/wiki/List_of_Officer_Cadet_Training_Units" title="List of Officer Cadet Training Units">163 OCTU</a>, an Officer Cadet training unit formed from the Artists' Rifles.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-auto_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_recognition">Awards and recognition</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Walter_Campbell_Smith&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Awards and recognition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Campbell Smith received both military and civilian honours. In January 1917, he was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Military_Cross" title="Military Cross">Military Cross</a> for his service with the special brigade. At that stage he held the rank of 2nd Lieutenant (temporary Captain).<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1929, he was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Territorial_Decoration" title="Territorial Decoration">Territorial Decoration</a> (TD) for his long service in the <a href="/wiki/Territorial_Army_(United_Kingdom)" class="mw-redirect" title="Territorial Army (United Kingdom)">Territorial Army</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1945, he was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Murchison_Medal" title="Murchison Medal">Murchison Medal</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Geological_Society_of_London" title="Geological Society of London">Geological Society of London</a> for his "work on petrology and mineralogy, and his long service as secretary to the Society".<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Campbell Smith was awarded the <a href="/wiki/CBE" class="mw-redirect" title="CBE">CBE</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1949_New_Year_Honours" title="1949 New Year Honours">1949 New Year Honours</a> list.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Deed_poll">Deed poll</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Walter_Campbell_Smith&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Deed poll"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In August 1959, Campbell Smith declared by <a href="/wiki/Deed_poll" title="Deed poll">deed poll</a> that he was abandoning the surname 'Smith', and thereafter was to be known as Walter Campbell-Smith.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Family">Family</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Walter_Campbell_Smith&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Family"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Campbell Smith married zoologist <a href="/wiki/Susan_Finnegan" title="Susan Finnegan">Susan Finnegan</a> in 1936. Finnegan was head of the <a href="/wiki/Arachnids" class="mw-redirect" title="Arachnids">arachnids</a> section at the museum at the time, and worked on <a href="/wiki/Mites" class="mw-redirect" title="Mites">mites</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ticks" class="mw-redirect" title="Ticks">ticks</a> but had to resign her post in order to marry.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Campbell Smith died in December 1988, shortly after celebrating his 101st birthday.<sup id="cite_ref-Woolley_Stephenson_Stonehouse_Obituary_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Woolley_Stephenson_Stonehouse_Obituary-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His archives are held at the Natural History Museum.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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