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John Cameron, Lord Cameron Knight of the Order ot the Thistle Distinguished Service Cross PRSE Federal Bar Association was a Scottish judge and President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1973 to 1976.

Background

Cameron was born in London, the son of John Cameron, a solicitor from Edinburgh.

Education

He attended Edinburgh Academy from 1910-1917. He then studied Law at Edinburgh University.

Career

This was interrupted by the First World War during which he served as a Midshipman in the Royal Navy Reserve. He resumed his studies after the war and qualified as an advocate in 1924. In 1936 he rose to be King"s Counsel.

In the Second World War he returned to the Royal Navy Reserve, this time as a Lieutenant Commander, and participated both in the evacuation at Dunkirk and the Doctorate-Day landings.

In 1945 he was made Sheriff of Inverness and served in this role until 1948. He returned to Edinburgh in 1948 to serve as Dean of Faculty.

He was knighted in 1954 and elected a Senator of the College of Justice on 5 July 1955. All Senators of the College (which includes the Supreme Courts of Scotland) have the honorific, The Honourable, and use the title Lord or Lady along with a surname or a territorial name.

Lord Cameron continued as Senator of the College of Justice until 1988.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1949. He became their Vice President in 1970 and President in 1973. He died in Edinburgh on 30 May 1996, aged 96.

Achievements

  • Lord Cameron, who had been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross as a naval officer, was also appointed a Knight of the Order of the Thistle in 1978.

Politics

"ertain at least of those who were prominent in the Association had objects far beyond the "reformist" character of the majority of Civil Rights Association demands, and undoubtedly regarded the Association as a stalking-horse for achievement of other and more radical and in some cases revolutionary objects, in particular abolition of the border, unification of Ireland outside the United Kingdom and the setting up of an all-Ireland ers" Socialist Republic.".

Membership

Faculty of Advocates.