Ewen Cameron (10 April 1860 – 30 March 1906) was a politician, member of the
Victorian Legislative Assembly
The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne.
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Cameron was born in Morgiana near
Hamilton, Victoria
Hamilton is a large town in south-western Victoria, Australia, at the intersection of the Glenelg Highway and the Henty Highway. The Hamilton Highway connects it to Geelong.
Hamilton is in the federal Division of Wannon, and is in the Southern ...
, the son of John Cameron and his wife Barbara Taylor. He was a grazier outside of politics, managing his family's property after his father's death, managing a property at
Paschendale (then known as Struan) for five years, then at "Cloverdale", near
Condah
Condah is a small town in south west Victoria, Australia and is located on the Henty Highway north of Heywood. At the 2006 census, Condah and the surrounding area had a population of 272.
It is about to north-west of Lake Condah, Budj Bim Na ...
and Sinclair estate at
Drumborg
Drumborg is a locality in south west Victoria, Australia. The locality is in the Shire of Glenelg, west of the state capital, Melbourne.
At the , Drumborg had a population of 152.
Traditional ownership
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[ He was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly on 1 November 1900, serving until his death in office in 1906.][
Cameron married Emma Harriet, née Nunn, and had four children. ]Maud Cameron
Maud Martha Cameron (1886–1973) was a teacher and school headmistress of Firbank Church of England Girls' Grammar School, in Australia.
She served as president of the Victorian Association of Headmistresses and acting president of the Headmis ...
became a teacher and school headmistress; Winifred became a doctor; and Edith became a nurse and served in Europe in World War I.
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1860 births
1906 deaths
20th-century Australian politicians
People from Victoria (Australia)
Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
19th-century Australian politicians