Peter Walter Campbell (17 June 1926 – 21 April 2005) was a gay

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. In 1975, he founded Conservative Group for Homosexual Equality.

Education

Peter Campbell was born at

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, on 17 June 1926. Campbell was educated at

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and at

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, where he read PPE. After post-graduate research at

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, he was appointed assistant lecturer, then lecturer, in Government at

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. In 1960 he moved to

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, and in 1964 became the founding head of the Department of Politics. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Letters & Social Sciences, and chairman of the Graduate School of Contemporary European Studies and of many university committees. Campbell wrote two books about the French political system: French Electoral Systems and Elections, 1789-1957 (1958, with B Chapman), and The Constitution of the Fifth Republic (1958); but he was always actively involved in the contemporary British political scene, serving during the 1950s as secretary of the

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, chairman of the Institute of Electoral Research, council member of the

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and editor of

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. He was also, for 30 years, co-president of the Reading University Conservative Association and was a vice-president of the

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Death

He died on 21 April 2005 at the age of 78.

References

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