Edward John Cameron

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Sir Edward John Cameron
KCMG
Personal details
Born(1858-05-14)14 May 1858
Leamington, Warwickshire, England
Died20 July 1947(1947-07-20) (aged 89)[1]
Bath, Somerset, England
NationalityBritish subject
OccupationColonial administrator

Sir Edward John Cameron, KCMG (14 May 1858 – 20 July 1947) was a British colonial administrator who served as governor of the Gambia from February 1914 to 1920.[2]

Early life and education[edit]

Born 14 May 1858, Cameron was the third son of John Charles Cameron MD, deputy surgeon-general of the British army, and Julia Elizabeth Mooyaart, daughter of James Mooyaart, auditor-general, Ceylon.[3] Cameron was educated at Shrewsbury School and Clifton College,[4] before entering Merton College, Oxford on 24 May 1877.[3][5] On 12 April 1887 he married Eva Selwyn Isaacs (1858–1944), daughter of Australian barrister and politician Robert Macintosh Isaacs.[6][7]

Career[edit]

Commissioner of the Virgin Islands and member of the executive and legislative councils of the Leeward Islands from February 1887 to 1893.[8] Commissioner of the Turks and Caicos Islands from 1893 to 1899.[9][10] Administrator of Saint Vincent from May 1901 to March 1909.[11] Acting Governor-in-Chief of the Windward Islands from June 1909 to October 1909.[11] Commissioner of Saint Lucia from 11 March 1909 to 1914.[12] Governor of the Gambia from 11 April 1914 until his retirement in July 1920.[13] During his time in the Gambia, he instigated the first colonial investigation into the behaviour of Travelling Commissioner J K McCallum and his relationship with Fatou Khan.[14]

Knighted CMG 30 June 1905 and KCMG 5 June 1916.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Will of Sir Edward John Cameron". Western Daily Press. Bristol, England. 27 December 1947 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  2. ^ Perfect, David (27 May 2016). Historical Dictionary of The Gambia. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 74–75. ISBN 978-1-4422-6526-4.
  3. ^ a b Walford, Edward (1919). Walford's County Families of the United Kingdom (59 ed.). London, England: R. Harwdwicke. p. 212 – via Internet Archive.
  4. ^ "Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. ref no 1434: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948
  5. ^ Foster, Joseph (1887). Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Vol. 1. University of Oxford. p. 211.
  6. ^ The Law Journal. Vol. 22 (1887 ed.). London, England: F. E. Streeten. 28 January 1888. p. 222.
  7. ^ Forbes, John R. (1972). "Isaacs, Robert Macintosh (1814–1876)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 4. Melbourne University Press. p. 464.
  8. ^ Hayter, Henry Heyln (1889). Victorian Year-Book 1888–1889 (16 ed.). London, England: Government Printer. p. 30.
  9. ^ Hayter, Henry Heylyn (1895). Victorian Year-Book 1894 (21 ed.). Melbourne, Australia: Robert S. Brain. p. 23.
  10. ^ "Service Gossip". The Colonies and India. London. 16 December 1893 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ a b Anderson, Robert M. (1938). The Saint Vincent handbook (5 ed.). Kingstown, Saint Vincent: The Vincentian. pp. 136, 404.
  12. ^ "No. 28232". The London Gazette. 12 March 1909. p. 1.
  13. ^ Gambia Report for 1920 (PDF). Colonial Report—Annual. London, England: H.M. Stationery Office. 1922. p. 2.
  14. ^ hassoum, ceesay (2012), Akyeampong, Emmanuel K.; Gates, Henry Louis (eds.), "Khan, Fatou", Dictionary of African Biography, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acref/9780195382075.001.0001, ISBN 978-0-19-538207-5, retrieved 16 January 2021
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