Background
CAMERON, Charles was born in 1841 in Dublin. Son of John Cameron, newspaper proprietor, Glasgow and Dublin.
CAMERON, Charles was born in 1841 in Dublin. Son of John Cameron, newspaper proprietor, Glasgow and Dublin.
Studied at Madras College St. Andrews. Trinity College Dublin. Medical Schools, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna.
1st Senior Moderator and Gold Medallist, 1862. Bachelor of Medicine (1st place-man), and Master in Surgery (1st place-man), 1862. Edited N.B. Daily Mail, 1864 - 74.
Doctor of Medicine; Master of Arts. Doctor of Laws.
Member of Parliament Radical Glasgow, 1874-1885. College Div., Glasgow, 1885-1895. Bridgeton Division Glasgow, 1897-1900.
Carried in House of Commons resolution which led to adoption of sixpenny telegrams. Introduced and carried the Inebriates Acts. Acts abolishing imprisonment for debt in Scotland.
Conferring the Municipal Franchise on women in Scotland. Securing various reforms of the Scottish Liquor Licensing Laws. Chairman of Departmental Committee on Transit of Cattle Coastwise, 1893.
Chairman of Departmental Committee on Habitual Offenders, etc. (Scotland), 1894; member of Royal Commission on Liquor Licensing Laws, 1895. 1st Baronet; cartulary-register 1893; Justice of the Peace and D.L. Glasgow; Justice of the Peace Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire.
Clubs: Reform, National Liberal; Liberal, Glasgow.
Heir: John Cameron.