# John Cameron

John Cameron (MAR 1845 – 25 JUN 1914); child of Donald Charles Cameron; born in British Guyana; parent of 1 child; died in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

**Lifespan:** MAR 1845 – 25 JUN 1914

## Parents
- [Donald Charles Cameron](/p/donald-charles-cameron-57622.md) (father)

## Spouses
- _unknown partner_ — m. 18 APR 1877
- _unknown partner_ — m. 27 DEC 1899

## Children
- [Donald Charles Cameron](/p/donald-charles-cameron-64936.md)

## Timeline
- MAR 1845 — **Born** at British Guyana
- FROM 1893 TO 1908 — **President, Central Queensland Pastoral Employers' Association** at Queensland, Australia — President of the Central Queensland Pastoral Employers' Association from 1893 to 1908. He had convened the meeting of employers at Barcaldine in April 1889 out of which the body grew.
- FROM 20 MAY 1893 TO 4 APR 1896 — **Member for Mitchell, Queensland Legislative Assembly** at Queensland, Australia — Opposition member for the seat of Mitchell in the Queensland Legislative Assembly, elected in 1893 as a central separationist, free trader and stern retrencher. He lost the seat to the Labour candidate Charles Fitzgerald in 1896, and was defeated again standing for Barcoo in 1899.
- FROM 1897 TO 1908 — **President, United Pastoralists' Association of Queensland** at Queensland, Australia — President of the United Pastoralists' Association of Queensland from 1897 to 1908, a period of labour, economic and climatic difficulty for the industry.
- FROM 6 AUG 1901 TO 5 FEB 1908 — **Member for Brisbane North, Queensland Legislative Assembly** at Brisbane, Queensland, Australia — Ministerialist member for Brisbane North, entering at a by-election in 1901 after Thomas MacDonald-Paterson resigned the seat for federal parliament. Ill health compelled his retirement in February 1908.
- 1914 — **Buried** at Toowong, Queensland, Australia — Buried in the Toowong cemetery, Brisbane, after a private funeral, with ceremonies befitting an elder of the Presbyterian Church and the chief of the Caledonian and Burns clubs.
- 25 JUN 1914 — **Died** at Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- **Occupation (Pastoralist)** — Began work as a jackaroo in 1859 and drove flocks north to Barcaldine in Queensland in the early 1860s. He was overseer of Alice Downs and then manager of Wilby, entered the Cameron-Crombie pastoral partnership, and from 1881 ran Kensington Downs, north-east of Longreach, with his mother. He was also chairman of Morehead Ltd, of the Queensland Meat Export and Agency Co and of the Alliance Insurance Co, and a director of the Queensland National Bank.
- **Education (Scotch College, Melbourne)** at Melbourne, Victoria, Australia — Educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, and afterwards at Geelong Church of England Grammar School, the family having settled in Victoria in 1853.

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