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. The presiding ...

. 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 The formally recognised traditional owner ...

. 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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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cameron, Ewen 1860 births 1906 deaths 20th-century Australian politicians People from Victoria (Australia) Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly 19th-century Australian politicians