John William Cameron (2 October 1841 – 28 December 1896) was an English brewer who owned Camerons Brewery of Hartlepool, County Durham.
Life
editCameron was born in Kirkby Stephen, Westmorland, on 2 October 1841, the son of Ewen and Hannah (née Tomlin) Cameron.[1][2] He was of Scottish Highlands ancestry.[2] He attended Kirkby Stephen Grammar School.[3] He served a six-year brewing apprenticeship at the Bank Brewery in Barnard Castle.[2]
In 1865 he joined the Lion Brewery in West Hartlepool as manager.[4] Upon the death of the owner, William Waldon Jr, in 1872, Cameron secured a 21-year lease on the brewery and 16 public houses.[5] In 1881 he married Emma Victoria, the daughter of Edgar Chapman of Adelaide at Tunbridge Wells.[6] When Cameron's lease expired in 1893, he purchased the brewery outright from the Waldon family for £34,442 (£3.8 million in 2012), and he appointed his brother Watson as managing director.[7]
Cameron served as the chief magistrate of Hartlepool from 1889 to 1890.[8] He died on 28 December 1896 and was buried in Marske, near Richmond, Yorkshire.[7] His personal estate was valued at £336,265.[9] In 1905 the Cameron Hospital was opened in Hartlepool, built by the Cameron family in his memory.[8]
References
edit- ^ "The Memorial Window of a Former Resident of Barnard Castle" (PDF), The Teesdale Mercury, 9 June 1897.
- ^ a b c "The Presentation of Colonel Cameron, Formerly of Barnard Castle" (PDF), The Teesdale Mercury, 30 October 1895.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Lesley Richmond; Alison Turton (1 January 1990). The Brewing Industry: A Guide to Historical Records. Manchester University Press. pp. 91–2. ISBN 978-0-7190-3032-1.
- ^ Robert Wood (1969). West Hartlepool: the rise and development of a Victorian new town. Hartlepool County Borough.
- ^ "Colonel Cameron, 4th D. A. V." (PDF), The Teesdale Mercury, 24 August 1887.
- ^ a b Camerons Brewery History | Camerons Brewery Archived 2012-08-01 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Toast to the hospital built thanks to beer - Hartlepool Mail[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries." Morning Post [London, England] 26 May 1897: 3. 19th Century British Newspapers. Web. 16 Apr. 2014.