Marriage and Issue
He married in Norfolk in 1878 Josephine Elizabeth Houchen, born in Shotford, Norfolk, in 1857, daughter of John Houchen of Thetford, Norfolk (Wereham, Norfolk, c. 1818 - Thetford, Norfolk, 6 October 1898) and wife (m. St James's, Westminster, 29 November 1845) Susannah Vautier (Stanton, Suffolk, c. 1819 - Thetford, Norfolk, 1859), by whom he had five children. His eldest son, Ewen Allan Cameron, senior partner in Panmure Gordon & Co. and member of the Council of Foreign Bondholders (who died 14 November 1937 in Vienna) was the great grandfather of the Conservative party leader David Cameron, who became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 2010.
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