John Campbell Shairp

John Campbell Shairp (1819–1885) was a Scottish scholar and poet, Principal of the United College at St Andrews and Professor of Poetry at Oxford. Lyra Celtica notes his Celtic descent through his mother.

His poems were gathered after his death in Glen Desseray and Other Poems, edited by F. T. Palgrave (1888). Lyra Celtica prints his ballad 'Cailleach Bein-y-Vreich'.