Charles Charles Cameron

Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom

December 18, 1841 (age 82)

Dublin, Ireland

He became editor of the North British Daily Mail in 1864, and was managing proprietor of the paper from 1873. The constituency was broken up under the Redistribution of Seats Acting 1885, and he was elected at the 1885 general election as the Member of Parliament for the new Glasgow College constituency. He held the seat until his defeat at the 1895 general election. Cameron was created baronet Cameron of Balclutha, Renfrew on 7 August 1893 for his journalistic and parliamentary services. He was subsequently elected as Member of Parliament for Glasgow Bridgeton at a by-election in February 1897, and held the seat until he stood down at the 1900 general election. His resolution led to the adoption of sixpenny telegrams and he was on the Committee on Transit of Cattle Coastwise in 1893. He wrote a number of pamphlets on medical, social, and political subjects. Cameron lived at Glenridge, Virginia Water, where he enjoyed motoring, riding, and traveling He died at the age of 82. Cameron married firstly Frances Caroline Macaulay in 1869. Their son John succeeded to the baronetcy.

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Background

Cameron was born in Dublin, the son of John Cameron, newspaper proprietor of Glasgow and Dublin.

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He was educated at Madras College, Street Andrew"s, and at Trinity College, Dublin. He also studied at medical schools in Paris, Berlin, and Vienna, but never practised medicine.

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He became editor of the North British Daily Mail in 1864, and was managing proprietor of the paper from 1873. The constituency was broken up under the Redistribution of Seats Acting 1885, and he was elected at the 1885 general election as the Member of Parliament for the new Glasgow College constituency. He held the seat until his defeat at the 1895 general election.

Cameron was created baronet Cameron of Balclutha, Renfrew on 7 August 1893 for his journalistic and parliamentary services.

He was subsequently elected as Member of Parliament for Glasgow Bridgeton at a by-election in February 1897, and held the seat until he stood down at the 1900 general election. His resolution led to the adoption of sixpenny telegrams and he was on the Committee on Transit of Cattle Coastwise in 1893.

He wrote a number of pamphlets on medical, social, and political subjects. Cameron lived at Glenridge, Virginia Water, where he enjoyed motoring, riding, and traveling

He died at the age of 82.

Cameron married firstly Frances Caroline Macaulay in 1869. Their son John succeeded to the baronetcy.

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21st United Kingdom Parliament. 22nd United Kingdom Parliament. 23rd United Kingdom Parliament.

24th United Kingdom Parliament.

25th United Kingdom Parliament. 26th United Kingdom Parliament]

At the 1874 general election Cameron was elected as one of the three Members of Parliament (MPs) for Glasgow.

Cameron was an active member of the House of Commons. He was responsible for the Inebriates Acts, secured various reforms in the Scottish Liquor Laws and was a member of the Royal Commission on the Liquor Licensing Laws in 1895.

He was also behind laws conferring the municipal franchise on women, and acts abolishing imprisonment for debt in Scotland and was a member of the Departmental Committee on Habitual Offenders (Scotland) in 1894.

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