Donald Charles Cameron

Sir Donald Charles Cameron, (19 November 1879 – 19 November 1960) was an Australian politician and soldier. He was a member of the Australian House of Representatives as the Nationalist Party of Australia member for Brisbane from 1919 to 1931 and as the United Australia Party member for Lilley from 1934 to 1937.

Early life Cameron was born in Brisbane on 19 November 1879. He was one of five children born to Sarah Annie and John Cameron. His mother died in 1893 and his father had one further child from his second marriage.

Cameron's father was a pastoralist of Scottish descent who had been born in British Guiana and arrived in Victoria as a child. He later amassed substantial pastoral holdings in Queensland. Cameron spent his early childhood at Kensington Downs, a family-owned grazing property near Longreach. He attended Toowoomba Grammar School and Brisbane Grammar School and subsequently obtained work as a clerk at the Queensland Meat Export and Agency Company, where his father was chairman of the board.

Politics In 1919 Cameron won the seat of Brisbane for the Nationalist Party of Australia, holding it until he was defeated by the Australian Labor Party in 1931. In 1934 he won the nearby seat of Lilley. In 1932 he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George.

Cameron resigned from the House of Representatives on 21 September 1937 to contest the Senate at the 1937 federal election. He was unsuccessful and subsequently retired from politics.

Later life During the Second World War, Cameron was chairman of the New South Wales recruiting committee for the Royal Australian Air Force. He died on 19 November 1960 and was cremated; his ashes were buried in the family cemetery on Home Creek Station.