Edward John Cameron

Sir Edward John Cameron KCMG
Personal details
Born	(1858-05-14)14 May 1858 Leamington, Warwickshire, England
Died	20 July 1947(1947-07-20) (aged 89)[1] Bath, Somerset, England
Nationality	British subject
Occupation	Colonial 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

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

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

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. 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. 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