Hector Charles Cameron Explained

Hector Charles Cameron (17 July 1878, Glasgow – 1 April 1958) was a British physician and paediatrician.[1] [2] [3]

Biography

Hector Charles Cameron, the younger son of Sir Hector Clare Cameron,[4] was known as Charles Cameron. He was educated at Clifton College and then at the University of Glasgow, before he became in 1898 a Foundation Scholar in Science at St John's College, Cambridge. He graduated there B.A. (Nat. Sci. Trip., 1st Class) in 1901 and won a university scholarship to Guy's Hospital.[1]

At Guy's Hospital he held a variety of posts, including demonstrator of physiology, out-patients officer, house-physician, anaesthetist, and medical registrar, before being appointed assistant physician in 1910, medical school sub-dean in 1911, and medical school dean in 1912.[1] In 1920 he chose to become a paediatric specialist instead of appointment as a full physician.[2] For many years he was editor of the Guy's Hospital Gazette.[1]

Cameron delivered the Lumleian Lectures (Some Forms of Vomiting in Infancy) in 1925.[1] He was Chief Medical Officer for the Motor Union and United British Insurance Co. From the University of Glasgow, he received an M.A. in 1906 and an honorary LL.D. in 1956.[2]

Cameron married in 1908. The marriage produced two daughters.[3]

Selected publications

Notes and References

  1. Hector Charles Cameron, M.D., LL.D, F.R.C.P.. British Medical Journal. 1. 5075. 893–894. 2028332. 10.1136/bmj.1.5075.893. 13523223. 1958 . Cameron . A..
  2. Web site: Hector Charles Cameron. Lives of the Fellows, Royal College of Physicians, Munk's Roll.
  3. Cameron, Hector Charles. Who's Who. 1920. 408.
  4. Web site: Frances Stoddard MacDonald, The Camerons of Fassifern. ancestryresearchservice.com.