The Celtic Dragon Myth, With the Geste of Fraoch and the Dragon

John Francis Campbell (Iain Frangan Caimbeul, known in Scottish Gaelic as Iain Og Ile ('Young John of Islay')) (1821-1885) was a Celtic scholar. He was educated at Eton and Edinburgh. He was Secretary to the Lighthouse Commission. He was an authority on Celtic folk-lore, and published the bilingual Popular Tales of the West Highlands (4 vols., 1860-62), and various Gaelic texts. He also invented the sunshine recorder that bears his name as the Campbell-Stokes recorder.