Cyril Cameron

The Honourable
Cyril Cameron
CB
Senator for Tasmania
In office
29 March 1901 – 31 December 1903
In office
1 January 1907 – 30 June 1913
Personal details
Born(1857-12-05)5 December 1857
Nile, Tasmania
Died22 December 1941(1941-12-22) (aged 84)
Nile, Tasmania, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Political partyProtectionist (1901–03)
Anti-Socialist (1906–09)
Liberal (1909–13)
RelationsNorman Cameron (brother)
OccupationSoldier, pastoralist

Cyril St Clair Cameron, CB (5 December 1857 – 22 December 1941) was an Australian soldier and politician.

Early life

Born in the town of Nile near Launceston, Tasmania, he was educated at Launceston Grammar School and then attended the University of Edinburgh before becoming a pastoralist and professional soldier. He served in Afghanistan 1878–1880 and South Africa during the Boer War 1899–1900, rising to position of Colonel in the AIF.[1] He was later aide-de-camp to the Governor-General and warden of Evandale. He was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1901 for his service with the Tasmanian Mounted Infantry during the Boer War.[2]

Politics

In 1901 he was elected to the Australian Senate as a Protectionist Senator for Tasmania. (His brother, Norman Cameron, was elected to the House of Representatives at the same election as a Free Trader.) He was defeated in 1903 but was re-elected as an Anti-Socialist in 1906.[3]

He was defeated again (as a Liberal) in 1913, and despite several attempts to re-enter the Senate, including a number as an independent, his political career was over. He became a pastoralist, and served in World War I 1914–1918.[4]

Personal life

Cameron died in 1941.[4]

One of his sons, Lt. Colonel Donald Cameron (1888–1979), was awarded the MC and OBE.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Cyril St Clair Cameron". www.clan-cameron.org.au. Archived from the original on 10 April 2012. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
  2. ^ Cameron, Caroline (1979). "Cameron, Cyril St Clair (1857–1941)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 7. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943.
  3. ^ Bennett, Scott. "CAMERON, Cyril St Clair (1857–1941)". The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
  4. ^ a b Carr, Adam (2008). "Australian Election Archive". Psephos, Adam Carr's Election Archive. Retrieved 23 November 2008.
  5. ^ "Lt. Colonel Donald Cameron, OBE, MC". www.clan-cameron.org.au. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 25 February 2018.


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