Donald Cameron (1 August 1814 – 13 October 1890) born in

Fordoun Fordoun ( gd, Fordun) (Pronounced "For-Dun") is a parish and village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Fothirdun (possibly "the lower place"), as it was historically known, was an important area in the Howe of the Mearns. Fordoun and Auchenblae, t ...

, Scotland was a Tasmanian politician who held the

Tasmanian Legislative Council The Tasmanian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. It is one of the two chambers of the Parliament, the other being the House of Assembly. Both houses sit in Parliament House in the state capital, H ...

seat of North Esk from 18 July 1868 to 13 July 1886. He was the second son of Donald Cameron (1780–1857), a Scottish surgeon who was granted a 1000acre (400ha) allotment near Launceston as an incentive to relocate in

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. By 1840 he was virtually manager of this farm which his father had named 'Fordon'. From 1844 to 1848 he toured Europe and Great Britain and by the time he returned to Australia he had married a

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lass, Mary Isabella Morrison. The farm prospered, allowing him to represent the area in the Tasmanian parliament. His wife survived him and continued to run the property for the next twenty three years. He was father of Donald Norman Cameron ( MHR for Tasmania 1901–03, MHA 1904-06) and Cyril St Clair Cameron (

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for Tasmania 1901-03) and grandfather of

Donald Keith Cameron Donald Keith Cameron (1 May 1887 – 6 June 1967) was an Australian politician. He was born in Chudleigh, Tasmania, the son of Norman Cameron, another Tasmanian politician. In 1934 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Natio ...

( MHA 1934-37).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cameron, Donald (Tasmanian politician) 1814 births 1890 deaths Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council Australian pastoralists 19th-century Australian politicians 19th-century Australian businesspeople People from Fordoun