Mary Greig Campbell

Mary Greig Campbell (1907–1989) was a New Zealand librarian, Quaker and relief worker in Shanghai, China, after World War II.

Biography Campbell was born in Duns, Berwickshire, Scotland, on 17 November 1907. Her father was a doctor, Alexander John Campbell, and her mother was a nurse, Joanna Alexander Greig. She attended Berwickshire high school from 1918 to 1924 and graduated from University of Edinburgh in 1928. The following year, she passed her diploma examination at the School of Librarianship, University College, London.

Emigration To take an available position at the Wellington Library, Campbell emigrated to New Zealand in 1939. She soon joined the local Quaker meeting in Wellington and in May 1940 she attended the Society's 32nd General Meeting. There, during a time of impending world war, Campbell confirmed that she "supported conscientious objectors at Armed Forces Appeal Board hearings and during detention, assisted interned aliens and their families, and, reflecting her concern for the needs of a post-war world, was an active member of the Quaker Relief and Reconstruction Committee."