Charles Hay Cameron
1795–1880
Jurist. Called to the bar, 1820, but did not practise. Went to Ceylon (Sri Lanka), 1830–1, to assist the commissioner of inquiry into the Eastern Colonies; recommended a uniform judicial system for the entire island, ending the separate treatment of Europeans in civil cases. Member of a number of government commissions in the UK and in India, including the commission on the poor laws, 1833, when he refused to distinguish between deserving and undeserving poor. Married Julia Margaret Pattle in 1838. Member of the governor-general’s council in India from 1843. Retired to England in 1848, moving to the Isle of Wight in 1860. Returned to Ceylon in 1875.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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