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- Author: Daniel Defoe
- Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
- ISBN-10: 143732052X
- ISBN-13: 9781437320527
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.9 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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Duncan Campbell (1680?-1730) was a Scottish deaf man and professed soothsayer.
The account of Campbell's early life, brought up in Lapland where his Scottish father had wed a local woman, has been questioned. He had some teaching at the University of Glasgow, according to the recommendations of John Wallis.
Campbell went in 1694 to London, where his predictions attracted attention in fashionable society. Running into debt, he went to Rotterdam, where he enlisted as a soldier. Returning in a few years to London, he read a wealthy young widow's fortune, to his own benefit, and having taken a house in Monmouth Street, he found himself again a centre of attraction.
Campbell succeeded in obtaining the notice of royalty, as reporting in the Daily Post of Wednesday, 4 May 1720: "Last Monday Mr. Campbell, the deaf and dumb gentleman—introduced by Colonel Carr—kissed the king's hand, and presented to his majesty The History of his Life and Adventures, which was by his majesty most graciously received."
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- Author: Daniel Defoe
- Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
- ISBN-10: 143732052X
- ISBN-13: 9781437320527
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.9 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
Duncan Campbell (1680?-1730) was a Scottish deaf man and professed soothsayer.
The account of Campbell's early life, brought up in Lapland where his Scottish father had wed a local woman, has been questioned. He had some teaching at the University of Glasgow, according to the recommendations of John Wallis.
Campbell went in 1694 to London, where his predictions attracted attention in fashionable society. Running into debt, he went to Rotterdam, where he enlisted as a soldier. Returning in a few years to London, he read a wealthy young widow's fortune, to his own benefit, and having taken a house in Monmouth Street, he found himself again a centre of attraction.
Campbell succeeded in obtaining the notice of royalty, as reporting in the Daily Post of Wednesday, 4 May 1720: "Last Monday Mr. Campbell, the deaf and dumb gentleman—introduced by Colonel Carr—kissed the king's hand, and presented to his majesty The History of his Life and Adventures, which was by his majesty most graciously received."
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