Painter and teacher, born in Brasted, Kent, his family being distantly related to the Elizabethan poet, Thomas Campion. Campion painted still life and landscape. His scenes in the south of France and still life studies were in colour and construction in the Cézanne tradition. He studied at Central School of Arts and Crafts and Slade School of Fine Art. Campion taught at Oxford School of Art, Morley College and at Camberwell. After solo shows at Mayor Gallery in 1968 and 1971 he had a succession of exhibitions from 1975 at New Grafton Gallery, which gave him a memorial show in 2001, another in 2004. The Arts Club, Financial Times and Magdalen College, Oxford, are among the owners of his work. Died in London.