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Sir Archibald Young Gipps Campbell KCIE CSI CBE (May 18, 1872 – October 30, 1957) was an Indian civil servant who served as the Law member of the executive council of the Governor of Madras from 1926 to 1928 and Chief Secretary of Madras 1925-1935 and made an important contribution towards the founding of Red Cross Food Parcels in the First World War. == Early life == Archibald Young Gipps Campbell was born in Brighton on May 18, 1872. His father, Archibald Samuels Campbell (1821–1899), had been a Fellow of mathematics at St John's College, Cambridge before going out to Jamaica where the family owned a number of plantations. He returned to England and married Alice Gipps (d.1932) in 1871 at the age of 50 and had three sons (Archibald, Allan, & William) and two daughters (Alice a.k.a Hilda; & Mary a.k.a. Daisy). Archibald Young Gipps Campbell was the eldest child. Archilbald Samuel Campbell retired to Cambridge and died there in 1899. An obituary appeared in the Eagle, the St John’s College magazine, the following year. A. Y. G. Campbell and was educated at the Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Archibald Young Gipps Campbell appears to have inherited much of his father’s talent for mathematics. After going up to Westminster School, he won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he went on to become a Smith’s Prizeman and Tyson Medallist, passing out 9th in the mathematics tripos, and particularly distinguishing himself for his work in cosmology. His undergraduate dissertation on the Theory of the Composition of the Stars was so outstanding that on the strength of it he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and a member of the French Astronomical Society. Sir Robert Ball, then Lowndean Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge, included his work in his lectures and described him as one of the most brilliant mathematicians of his time.
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