Background
Campbell was born in Cheltenham, England.
Campbell was born in Cheltenham, England.
He was Emeritus Director of Botswana"s Department of Wildlife and National Parks and National Monuments. He entered the British South Africa Police in the British colony of Southern Rhodesia in 1951. Transferring to the agricultural department as a tsetse fly officer in 1954, he entered Rhodes University in 1959, graduating in SiNdebele and Social Anthropology.
Becoming a district officer in the Bechuanaland Protectorate in 1962, Campbell ran the country"s first house-to-house census in 1963-1964.
After independence he became senior warden of Botswana"s Department of Wildlife and National Parks. He founded and was later director of Botswana"s National Museum and Art Gallery.
In the 1970s Campbell worked to overturn the previous consensus that Botswana had little Stone Age activity. He died, aged 80, in Gaborone.