Official portrait of Lord Cameron of Dillington crop 2, 2022

Ewen James Hanning Cameron, Baron Cameron of Dillington DL, (born 24 November 1949) is a landowner and

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who sits as a

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member of the

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. Lord Cameron is one of five siblings and the second but elder surviving son of Major Allan Cameron, himself second son of Colonel Sir Donald Walter Cameron of Lochiel, K.T., 25th Lochiel. His mother (Mary) Elizabeth Vaughan-Lee was descended from a Somerset-based land-owning family. Educated at

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and at

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, where he studied modern history, Cameron has been manager of the Dillington Estate in Somerset, which has been in his mother's family for over 250 years and from which he has taken part of his title, since 1971. He was national president of the Country Land and Business Association from 1995 to 1997 and was a member of the UK Government's Round Table for Sustainable Development from 1997 until 2000, when it was abolished to create the

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. He was chair of the

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from 1999 to 2004 and was the UK Government's rural advocate for England from 2000 to 2004. He was appointed

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for 1986 and raised to a

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as Baron Cameron of Dillington, ''of Dillington in the

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'' on 29 June 2004, having been knighted in the

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. He is a Fellow of the

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and of the Royal Agricultural Societies. Between 2010 and 2015, he was President of the Guild of Agricultural Journalists. He has been co-chair of the All-party Parliamentary Group on Agriculture and Food for Development, alongside

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MP, since the 2010 election.

Family

Lord Cameron married Caroline Anne Ripley in 1975, daughter of Horace Derek de Chapeaurouge Ripley, and has three sons and one daughter. His younger sister, Bridie Donalda Elspeth Cameron (now Lady Donald Graham), is married to Lord Donald Graham, half-brother of

James Graham, 8th Duke of Montrose James Graham, 8th Duke of Montrose (born 6 April 1935), known as Earl of Kincardine until 1954 and Marquess of Graham between 1954 and 1992, is a Southern Rhodesia-born hereditary peer of the Peerage of Scotland and a British Conservative Party ...

Arms

References

"Sir Ewen James Hanning Cameron, Baron Cameron of Dillington"
Retrieved 23 January 2009. *Burkes Peerage and Baronetage (2003), s.v. Montrose, Dukes of {{DEFAULTSORT:Cameron, Ewen Baron Cameron Of Dillington 1949 births Cameron of Dillington Deputy Lieutenants of Somerset High Sheriffs of Somerset Knights Bachelor Living people People educated at Harrow School Cameron of Dillington Fellows of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Life peers created by Elizabeth II