Hardinge Hay Cameron
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|order = 19th
|office = Treasurer of Ceylon
|term_start = 11 June 1901
|term_end = 1904
|predecessor = Charles Edward Ducat Pennycuick
|successor = Hilgrove Clement Nicolle
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|birthname = Hardinge Hay Cameron
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|birth_place = Calcutta, Bengal, India
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Hardinge Hay Cameron CCS, JP, FRCI (5 August 1846 – 16 September 1911) was the nineteenth Treasurer of Ceylon (1901–1904), and a member of both the Legislative Council and Governor's Executive Council, under the Ridgeway, and Blake administrations. He also served as the Mayor/Chairman of the Colombo Municipal Council (1887–1893).
Early life and schooling
Hardinge Hay Cameron was born on 5 August 1846 in Chowringhee, Calcutta, Bengal Province, India, the third son and fourth child of Charles Hay Cameron, British jurist, and Julia Margaret née Pattle, British photographer.{{cite book|title=Images of British Ceylon: Nineteenth Century Photography of Sri Lanka|author1=Raheem, Ismeth|author2=Colin-Thomé, Percy|publisher=Times Editions|isbn= 9789812047786|page=140}}{{cite book|editor=Mosley, Charles|title=Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition|place=Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.|publisher=Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd|date=2003}} He was baptised at Fort William, Bengal, on 26 August 1846.
He studied at the Charterhouse School, matriculating on 14 October 1865, at the age of nineteen.{{cite book|title=List of Carthusians, 1800 to 1879|author=Charterhouse School|editor=Parish, William Douglas|publisher=Farncombe|date=1879|page=39}} He then enrolled at University College, Oxford.{{cite book|title=Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886|volume=1|author=University of Oxford|page=212|publisher=Parker and Company|date=1888}}
Career
In 1868 he joined the Ceylon Civil Service as a writer, and was appointed as Commissioner of Requests at Haputale. The following year he served as the acting assistant government agent in Kandy, which was confirmed in April 1872. In November he was transferred as acting government agent in Nuwara Eliya. He served as the private secretary to Sir William Henry Gregory, Governor of Ceylon, from 1872 to 1877.{{cite web|url=https://asianartnewspaper.com/artistic-lives-in-victorian-ceylon/|title=Artistic Lives in Victorian Ceylon|date=24 August 2023|access-date=8 November 2023|publisher=Asian Art}} He was then appointed acting government agent in Nuwara Eliya in 1879, acting government agent in Badulla in 1881 and in 1886 the acting government agent for the Western Province.{{cite book|title=The Dominions Office and Colonial Office List: Comprising Historical and Statistical Information Respecting the Overseas Dominions and Colonial Dependencies of Great Britain|author=Anderson, John (Colonial Office)|publisher=Harrison and Sons|place=London|date=1894|page=381}}
Between 1887 and 1901 he served as the Mayor/Chairman of the Colombo Municipal Council.{{cite book|title=The Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland|volume=10|author=Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society|publisher=Colombo Apothecaries Company|date=1891|page=cxxi}}
On 11 June 1901 Cameron was appointed as Treasurer of Ceylon and Commissioner of Stamps.{{cite book|title=Ceylon Blue Book|author=Registrar-General's Department, Ceylon|publisher=Government Printer, South Africa|date=1907|page=287}} When he retired as Treasurer in 1904 he returned to England to complete his university studies,{{cite book|title=Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs|publisher=Getty Publications|date=2003|page=512|isbn=9780892366811}} which he did so in 1908.{{Cite book|title=Oxford University Calendar|issue=12|author=University of Oxford|publisher=University of Oxford|date=1911|page=224}}
Personal life
Cameron married Katherine Anne Mackintosh McLeod (1858-1880), daughter of Rev. Norman McLeod and Catherine Anne née MacKintosh, on 20 September 1879 in Colombo, Ceylon. She died just over a year later on 27 December 1880 in Nuwara Eliya, Ceylon.{{cite book|title=Allen's Indian mail and register of intelligence for British and Foreign India|volume=XXXIX|publisher=William H. Allen & Co.|place=London|date=1881|page=141}}
Cameron married Adeline Annie Blake (1862-1947), daughter of Colonel George Pilkington Blake and Adeline née King, on 2 December 1884 in St George Hanover Square, London, England. They had no children.{{cite web|url=https://woodlloydfamilyhistory.com/fam2476.html|title=Family of Hardinge Hay CAMERON and Adeline Annie BLAKE|publisher=Wood Family History|access-date=8 November 2023}}
Cameron died on 16 September 1911, in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England aged 65. He is buried in the city's cemetery.
See also
- Cameron, Julia Margaret, Cameron, C. H., Cameron, Hardinge Hay, Cameron, Kitty Macleod, Cameron, Adeline A. Blake, Herschel, John F. W., and Taylor, Henry. Julia Margaret Cameron Family Papers, Ca. 1800-1940. (1800).
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Category:British civil servants in British Ceylon