Hector Clare Cameron

Life Cameron was the second son of Donald Charles Cameron, who owned a Sugar plantation called Plantation Zeelugt in Uitvlugt, Demerara. On 22 November 1928, Sir Hector Clare Cameron died at his house at 18 Woodside Crescent, Glasgow.

He is buried with his family at the Glasgow Necropolis. The grave lies at the south end of one of the rows at the east side of the upper plateau.

Career At the University of Glasgow, Cameron studied under the supervision of Lister, to such an extent that he became Lister's house surgeon in 1868,

Glasgow University awarded Hector Cameron an LL.D both in appreciation of his career and recognition of the importance of his work.

James Watson Lectures In February 1906, Cameron held the James Watson Lecture.

Awards and honours Cameron received several awards, and appreciated them, although he never sought them, they gave pleasure to his friends and patients. Cameron received a brief note that contained a poem from an old Scottish lady, who was a former patient and who wrote to him on the occasion of his Knighthood awarded by Queen Victoria in 1900. The old lady wrote:

Some háe sought it, some háe bought it, you háe wrought it.

In 1918 Cameron's services as commissioner were recognised and he was awarded a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by King George V.