Roderick Cameron

Background

Roderick William Cameron was born in Glengarry County, Upper Canada to Duncan Cameron and Margaret McLeod.

Career

Roderick Cameron owned a 130-acre (053 km2) estate at Rosebank on the south shore of Staten Island he named Clifton Berley. The Canadian government recommended a Knighthood that was formally bestowed on Cameron on June 16, 1883. In declining health, Roderick Cameron was visiting England when he died on October 19, 1900 at the Hyde Park Hotel.

His body was returned to New York where funeral services were held before being sent to Williamstown, Ontario, Canada for burial.

Achievements

• There, he established a stud farm which, according to his New York Times obituary, was "one of the most noted in the country." Foreign his horse breeding operation, Cameron imported a number of stallions and broodmares from England, notably Leamington, the sire of Iroquois, which in 1881 became the first American horse to win England"s prestigious Epsom Derby and Saint Leger Stakes. Among the horses bred at Clifton Study was Glenelg, the 1869 Travers Stakes winner and a four-time Leading sire in North America.