In 1868 he joined the Ceylon Civil Service as a writer, and was appointed as Commissioner of Requests at Haputale. The following year he served as the acting assistant government agent in Kandy, which was confirmed in April 1872. In November he was transferred as acting government agent in Nuwara Eliya. He served as the private secretary to Sir William Henry Gregory, Governor of Ceylon, from 1872 to 1877.[5] He was then appointed acting government agent in Nuwara Eliya in 1879, acting government agent in Badulla in 1881 and in 1886 the acting government agent for the Western Province.[6]
On 11 June 1901 Cameron was appointed as Treasurer of Ceylon and Commissioner of Stamps.[8] When he retired as Treasurer in 1904 he returned to England to complete his university studies,[9] which he did so in 1908.[10]
Personal life
Cameron married Katherine Anne Mackintosh McLeod (1858-1880), daughter of Rev. Norman McLeod and Catherine Anne née MacKintosh, on 20 September 1879 in Colombo, Ceylon.[2] She died just over a year later on 27 December 1880 in Nuwara Eliya, Ceylon.[11]
Cameron married Adeline Annie Blake (1862-1947), daughter of Colonel George Pilkington Blake and Adeline née King, on 2 December 1884 in St George Hanover Square, London, England.[2] They had no children.[12]
Cameron died on 16 September 1911, in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England aged 65.[2] He is buried in the city's cemetery.[9]
See also
Cameron, Julia Margaret, Cameron, C. H., Cameron, Hardinge Hay, Cameron, Kitty Macleod, Cameron, Adeline A. Blake, Herschel, John F. W., and Taylor, Henry. Julia Margaret Cameron Family Papers, Ca. 1800-1940. (1800).
^Anderson, John (Colonial Office) (1894). The Dominions Office and Colonial Office List: Comprising Historical and Statistical Information Respecting the Overseas Dominions and Colonial Dependencies of Great Britain. London: Harrison and Sons. p. 381.
^Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (1891). The Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland. Vol. 10. Colombo Apothecaries Company. p. cxxi.
^Registrar-General's Department, Ceylon (1907). Ceylon Blue Book. Government Printer, South Africa. p. 287.
^ abJulia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs. Getty Publications. 2003. p. 512. ISBN9780892366811.
^University of Oxford (1911). Oxford University Calendar. University of Oxford. p. 224.
^Allen's Indian mail and register of intelligence for British and Foreign India. Vol. XXXIX. London: William H. Allen & Co. 1881. p. 141.