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Authorised form of nameCameron; John (1817 - 1878); British Army officer
Dates1817 - 1878
NationalityBritish
Place of birthSt. Amands, French Flanders, Belgium
Date of birth31 March 1817
Place of deathOrdnance House, The Avenue, Southampton, England
Date of death30 June 1878
DatesAndPlacesPlace of burial: Southampton Old Cemetery, England, grave H55 37.
OccupationArmy officer and Director of the Ordnance Survey
ActivityCareer:
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 categoryFellow
Date of election04/06/1868
Age at election51
ProposerHenry 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
RelationshipsParents: 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).
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; research of Paul Fuller.
CodeNA1452
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1868/08Cameron, John: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MC/6/90Letter 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/6/100Letter 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/6Volume 6 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1859-1863
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