| Authorised form of name | Cameron; John (1817 - 1878); Army officer and Director of the Ordnance Survey |
| Dates | 1817 - 1878 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | St. Amands, French Flanders, Belgium |
| Date of birth | 31 March 1817 |
| Place of death | Ordnance House, The Avenue, Southampton, England |
| Date of death | 30 June 1878 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Place of burial: Southampton Old Cemetery, England, grave H55 37. |
| Occupation | Soldier; Surveyor |
| Activity | Career:
Served with the Royal Engineers; joined the Ordnance Survey as First Lieutenant (1839); Executive Officer, Ordnance Survey of Great Britain (by 1862); left on promotion to Major General (1874); re-joined as Director, Ordnance Survey (1875-1878); Lieutenant General (by 1878); died of pneumonia. |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 04/06/1868 |
| Age at election | 51 |
| Proposer | Henry James; George Biddell Airy; Roderick Impey Murchison; John Washington; Andrew Crombie Ramsay; William Spottiswoode; John Henry Lefroy; John Phillips; Charles James Buchanan Riddell; George Henry Richards; Douglas Galton |
| John Tyndall; William George Armstrong; Thomas Henry Huxley; Andrew Scott Waugh; Thomas Sopwith; John Theophilus Boileau; Warington Wilkinson Smyth; Henry William Bristow; Alexander Strange; James Ranald Martin; William John Macquorn Rankine |
| Relationships | Parents: Lt. General Sir John Cameron, K.C.B. (1773-1844), of Culchenna, and Amelia Emily Brock (1776-1858).
Siblings: General Sir Duncan Cameron (20 May 1808-8 June 1888) of the Black Watch.
Spouse: Matilda Susannah White (1822-1878), (25 April 1843), committed suicide.
Children: Captain John Duncan Cameron (1844-1928); Colonel James Cameron (1848-1926); Saumarez William Cameron (1850-1916); Emily Louisa Cameron (1853-1916); Captain Charles Barton Cameron (1857-1919); Annie Janet Cameron (1859-1943); Marian Francis Cameron (1859-1932); Lieutenant Colonel Ewan Conwallis Cameron (1865-1932). |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; research of Paul Fuller. |
| Code | NA1452 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1868/08 | Cameron, John: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MC/6/90 | Letter from J [John] Cameron, Lieutenant Colonel Royal Engineers, Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, to C R [Charles Richard] Weld, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society] | 8 June 1860 |
| MC/6/100 | Letter from J [John] Cameron, Lieutenant Colonel Royal Engineers, Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, to C R [Charles Richard] Weld, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society] | 31 July 1860 |
| MC/6 | Volume 6 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1859-1863 |