Cyril Cameron Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Honourable
Senator for Tasmania
Term Start:29 March 1901
Term End:31 December 1903
Term Start1:1 January 1907
Term End1:30 June 1913
Birth Date:1857 12, df=yes
Birth Place:Nile, Tasmania
Death Place:Nile, Tasmania, Australia
Nationality:Australian
Party:Protectionist (1901–03)
Anti-Socialist (1906–09)
Liberal (1909–13)
Relations:Norman Cameron (brother)
Occupation:Soldier, pastoralist

Cyril St Clair Cameron, (5 December 1857 – 22 December 1941) was an Australian soldier and politician.

Early life

Born in the town of Nile near Launceston, Tasmania, he was educated at Launceston Grammar School and then attended the University of Edinburgh before becoming a pastoralist and professional soldier. He served in Afghanistan 1878–1880 and South Africa during the Boer War 1899–1900, rising to position of Colonel in the AIF.[1] He was later aide-de-camp to the Governor-General and warden of Evandale. He was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1901 for his service with the Tasmanian Mounted Infantry during the Boer War.[2]

Politics

In 1901 he was elected to the Australian Senate as a Protectionist Senator for Tasmania. (His brother, Norman Cameron, was elected to the House of Representatives at the same election as a Free Trader.) He was defeated in 1903 but was re-elected as an Anti-Socialist in 1906.[3]

He was defeated again (as a Liberal) in 1913, and despite several attempts to re-enter the Senate, including a number as an independent, his political career was over. He became a pastoralist, and served in World War I 1914–1918.

Personal life

Cameron died in 1941.[4]

One of his sons, Lt. Colonel Donald Cameron (1888–1979), was awarded the MC and OBE.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Cyril St Clair Cameron. www.clan-cameron.org.au. 2018-02-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20120410130014/http://www.clan-cameron.org.au/getperson.php?personID=I20248&tree=cameron1. 10 April 2012. dead.
  2. Caroline . Cameron . Cameron, Cyril St Clair (1857–1941) . 7 . 1979 . cameron-cyril-st-clair-5615 .
  3. cyril-st-clair-cameron . CAMERON, Cyril St Clair (1857–1941) . Scott . Bennett . 29 November 2022.
  4. Web site: Carr. Adam. Australian Election Archive. Psephos, Adam Carr's Election Archive. 2008. 2008-11-23.
  5. Web site: Lt. Colonel Donald Cameron, OBE, MC. www.clan-cameron.org.au. 2018-02-25. 6 July 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110706124642/http://www.clan-cameron.org.au/getperson.php?personID=I97318&tree=cameron1. dead.