Scottish solicitor, pornographer and collector James Campbell Reddie was BOTD in 1807. Born in Glasgow to a prominent middle-class family, he was estranged from his father by his teens, apparently due to his borrowing heavily from the family fortune, and was disinherited in favour of his sister. He moved to Edinburgh in 1829 where he trained as a solicitor, working for the Society of Writers to Her Majesty’s Signet for the next 20 years. In 1849, he relocated to London and worked as a typesetter, dropping his father’s surname and calling himself James Campbell. He became an author and translator of erotic writing, befriending pornographers William Lazenby and William Dugdale, and publishing translations of French and Italian erotic stories in Dugdale’s underground journal The Exquisite. He and his friend Simeon Solomon are thought to be the authors of The Sins of the City of the Plain, an erotic novella based on the sexual adventures of Victorian rent boy Jack Saul. Campbell was also a dedicated collector of erotic literature, running an informal lending library to his friends and fellow collectors. A lifelong bachelor, Campbell had a relationship with his landlord Adamo Pedroletti, who later wrote about their sexual liaisons and mutual seduction of a 15 year-old boy. In 1877, he returned to Scotland, selling his library of erotica to fellow collector Henry Spencer Ashbee. He died in 1878 after a long illness, aged 70.