Peter Cameron (writer)
Peter Cameron is the name of: * Peter Cameron (entomologist) (1847–1912), English entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera * Peter Cameron (minister) (born 1945), Scottish-born Church of Scotland minister convicted of heresy by the Presbyterian Church of Australia * Peter Cameron (mathematician) (born 1947), Australian mathematician, joint winner of the 2003 Euler Medal * Peter Cameron (umpire) (born 1951), former umpire in Australian football * Peter Cameron (novelist) (born 1959), American novelist and short-story writer See also * Peter Cameron Scott Peter Cameron Scott (1867–1896) was a Scottish-American missionary and founder of Africa Inland Mission the front runner of Africa Inland Church . Biography Scott was born to a Christian family in Glasgow, which later migrated to the Uni ...

Peter Cameron (entomologist)
Peter Cameron (1847 – 1 December 1912 in New Mills, Derbyshire) was an English amateur entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera. An artist Cameron worked in the dye industry and in calico printing. He described many new species; his collection, including type material, is now in the Natural History Museum. He suffered from poor health and lack of employment. Latterly, he lived in New Mills and was supported by scholarships from the Royal Society. He loaned specimens to Jean-Jacques Kieffer, a teacher and Catholic priest in Bitche, Lorraine, who also named species after Cameron. Works *A ''Monograph of the British Phytophagous Hymenoptera'' Ray Society (1882–1893) *Hymenoptera volumes of the ''Biologia Centrali-Americana The ''Biologia Centrali-Americana'' is an encyclopedia of the natural history of Mexico and Central America, privately issued in 215 parts from 1879 to 1915 by the editors Frederick DuCane Godman and Osbert Salvin, of the British Museum (Natura ...
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Peter Cameron (minister)
Peter Cameron is a former Scotland, Scottish Presbyterian minister (Christianity), minister, theologian, lawyer, who was notable for being convicted of heresy. Early life Cameron was born in 1945 in Scotland, read law at Edinburgh University, and studied theology at Edinburgh and Cambridge before being ordained as a minister in the Church of Scotland. Career Cameron and his family moved to Sydney, New South Wales, Australia at the beginning of 1991, when he was appointed Principal (school), Principal of St Andrew's College, Sydney, St Andrew's College at the University of Sydney, and thus became a minister in the Presbyterian Church of Australia. Conviction for heresy Cameron was charged with heresy in 1993 for challenging Christian beliefs, as Samuel Angus, a previous professor at St Andrew's College, had been in the 1930s. Whereas Angus was finally acquitted, Cameron was convicted by the Presbyterian Church of Australia of heresy for disagreeing with the first chapter of the W ...
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Peter Cameron (mathematician)
Peter Jephson Cameron FRSE (born 23 January 1947) is an Australian mathematician who works in group theory, combinatorics, coding theory, and model theory. He is currently half-time Professor of Mathematics at the University of St Andrews, and Emeritus Professor at Queen Mary University of London. Cameron received a B.Sc. from the University of Queensland and a D.Phil. in 1971 from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, with Peter M. Neumann as his supervisor. Subsequently, he was a Junior Research Fellow and later a Tutorial Fellow at Merton College, Oxford, and also lecturer at Bedford College, London. Work Cameron specialises in algebra and combinatorics; he has written books about combinatorics, algebra, permutation groups In mathematics, a permutation group is a group ''G'' whose elements are permutations of a given set ''M'' and whose group operation is the composition of permutations in ''G'' (which are thought of as bijective functions from the set ''M'' t ...
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Peter Cameron (umpire)
Peter Peter Cameron (born 1951) is a former Australian rules football field umpire, who umpired 306 matches between 1977 and 1993 in the Australian Football League, including nineteen finals and three AFL Grand Final appearances. Since completing his umpiring career, he has continued to maintain a public presence through appearances in the E. J. Whitten Legends Game. He also worked at schools in Melbourne Victoria Australia including Wandin Yallock Primary School and Wallarano Primary School. He retired from teaching in 2017. Umpiring career Cameron began his umpiring career in 1977, the 279th field umpire to participate in VFL/AFL football. He quickly established a reputation as a fine umpire and practical joker, with one umpire remembering that he used to "cut the crotches out of our (underpants)." After just two years as an umpire, he received his first taste of the big time, being selected to officiate the night Grand Final between Collingwood and Hawthorn. It was anoth ...
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Peter Cameron (novelist)
Peter Cameron (born November 29, 1959) is an American novelist and short-story writer. Several of his works have been adapted into films. Life and career Cameron was born and raised in the Pompton Plains section of Pequannock Township, New Jersey. He graduated in English literature in 1982 from Hamilton College. Cameron lived in Pompton Plains, London, and, later, New York City. In 1983, he published his first short story (''Memorial Day'') in The New Yorker; he then continued to contribute to the magazine in the following years. His first book was a collection of short stories entitled ''One Way or Another'', published by Harper & Row in 1986. His debut novel ''Leap Year'' was published by Harper & Row in 1990. His second novel, ''The Weekend'', was edited in 1994 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and adapted as the Brian Skeet film of the same name released in November 2000. In 1997, Farrar, Straus and Giroux published Cameron's next novel, ''Andorra'', and ''The City of Your Final ...
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