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Cambell, Dennis Royle Farquharson, 1907-1998
GB-2014-WSA-04369 · Person · 1907-1998

Cambell, Dennis Royle Farquharson, son of Archibald Cambell MB, of Southsea, Hants, and Edith, d. of Arthur Farquharson Roberts of Bedford; b. 13 Nov. 1907; adm. Sept. 1921 (R); left July 1925; Midshipman RN Sept. 1926, Lieut. Dec. 1930, Lieut.-Cdr Dec. 1938, Cdr Dec. 1942, Capt. Dec. 1948; commanded HMS Ark Royal 1955-6; Dir. of Air Warfare, Admiralty, 1957; inventor of angled flight deck for aircraft-carriers; Rear-Adm 1958; DSC 1940, Legion of Merit (US) 1958, CB 1960; retd 1960; m. 12 Aug. 1933 Dorothy Elinor, d. of Allan John Downes, of Lee-on-Solent, Hants.; d. 6 April 2000.
Camden Music
GB-2014-WSA-19666 · Corporate body · 1991-present

Camden Music was founded by Andrew Skirrow in 1991 and is still active in the music publishing business today.
Camden, William, 1551-1623
Camden, William, 1551-1623
GB-2014-WSA-00387 · Person · 1551-1623

Son of Sampson Camden, London, citizen and painter stainer, and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of Giles Curwen, Poulton Hall, Lancs. ; b. 2 May 1551 ; ed. Christ’s Hospital and St.Paul’s Sch. ; Magdalen Coll.Oxford, servitor 1566 ; migr. to Broadgates Hall and subsequently to Christ Church, Oxford ; BA 6 Mar 1573/4 ; adm. Inner Temple 20 Feb 1571/2, having previously been a member of Lyon’s Inn ; began travelling over England collecting antiquarian and archaeological data ; Under Master, Westminster School 1575-93, obtaining appointment through the influence of Dean Goodman (Camden noted in his Memorabilia, under the year 1575, “Westmonasterium veni”, T.Smith, ed., Camdeni Epistolae, 1691, (Annales section), 85 (see also op.cit., viii) ; Keeper of Chapter Library, Westminster Abbey 15 May 1587 ; Prebendary of Salisbury from 6 Feb 1588/9 (although a layman) ; Head Master, Westminster School Mar 1592/3 – Oct 1597 ; on 13 Jun 1594 was permitted to “take his diet with us, the said Dean and Chapter, sittinge at our table in our said Colledge” ; Clarencieux King of Arms from 23 Oct 1597 ; founded Camden Professorship of History, Oxford Univ., 1622 ; author, Britannia, 1586 (six subsequent editions in his lifetime), Annales, 1615-25, and other works ; his Institutio Graecae Grammaticae Compendiaria, 1595, published for the use of the School, was an epitome of the Graecae Linguae Spicilegium of Edward Grant (qv) ; it became known as the Eton Greek Grammar and passed through more than 100 editions ; see W.H.Herendeen, William Camden, A Life in Context, 2007 ; d. unm. 9 Nov 1623. Buried South Transept, Westminster Abbey. ODNB.
Cameron, Donald George, 1920-1995
GB-2014-WSA-04370 · Person · 1920-1995

Cameron, Donald George, son of Donald Cameron, architect, of Ealing , and Agnes Constable, d. of Hugh Peacock of Glasgow; b. 7 Apr. 1920; adm. Sept. 1933 (A); left July 1937; King's Coll. Lond., BSc (1st class hons) 1944; a civil engineer, AMICE 1949, FICE 1964, FCIArb 1970; Rendel Palmer & Tritton 1952-80, consult. engineer 1970-80; m. 24 Mar. 1955 Diane Margue­rite Haywood; d. 29 Mar. 1995
Cameron, Frederick John Alistair, 1916-1940
GB-2014-WSA-04372 · Person · 1916-1940

Cameron, Frederick John Alistair; b. 15 Oct. 1916; adm. Jan. 1931 (G); left Apr. 1931; PO RAFVR Apr. 1940; d. 19 August 1940.

Frederick John Alastair “Freddy” Cameron was born in London on the 15th of October 1916 the only son of Alastair Cameron and Mary Addison (nee Pudney) Cameron of 2, John Street, Mayfair in London, later of Bourne End in Buckinghamshire. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Grant’s from January 1931 to April 1931. He worked for Phillips & Powis Aircraft Ltd of Reading and gained a Royal Aero Club Certificate (No. 11499) at Phillips & Powis on the 1st of May 1933 while flying a DH Moth. He was married to Helen (nee Curtiss) (before 1939) and they lived at “Wayside”, High Street, Weston-Super-Mare.
He enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve where he trained as a pilot and rose to the rank of Sergeant. He was serving as a pilot with No. 5 Air Observer Navigation School, based at Weston Airport, Weston-Super-Mare in 1939 and was lodging at Quarry Close, Winscombe in Somerset. He was commissioned as a Pilot Officer on the 1st of April 1940.
Freddy Cameron and his crew took off on the 19th of August 1940 in Anson Mk I N5132 for a navigational training exercise. At the time he had accumulated 2,634.50 hours of total solo flying time on all aircraft types of which 439.50 were on Anson aircraft. During the flight the starboard engine failed and Frederick Cameron attempted to make a forced landing at Littleton Lane, Wellow, some three miles to the south of Bath. As it came in to land the aircraft hit a tree which ripped off the starboard wing and caused it to swing into some trees and tip headfirst into a stream. It turned over onto its back with the tail plane resting on a tree. All but two of the men on board were killed.
The crew was: -
Pilot Officer Frederick John Alastair Cameron (Pilot)
Leading Aircraftman Raymond Thomas Howard (Observer Under Training)
Leading Aircraftman Joseph Asquith Hodgson (Observer Under Training)
Leading Aircraftman William Henry Howard (Observer Under Training)
Leading Aircraftman Ian Macinnes (Seriously injured)
Mr H. P. Wigg (Civilian Wireless Operator) (Seriously injured)
The injured were admitted to Bath Royal United Hospital later in the day.
His wife received the following letter dated the 21st of August 1940: - “Madam, I am commanded by the Air Council to express to you their great regret on learning that your husband, Pilot Officer Frederick John Alastair Cameron, Royal Air Force, lost his life as the result of an aircraft accident near Wellow, Bath on 19th of August, 1940. The Air Council desire me to convey their profound sympathy with you in your bereavement.”
He is buried at the Church of St Mary the Less, Chilbolton.
Cameron, Ian Rennell, 1936-2022
GB-2014-WSA-20974 · Person · 1936-2022

Cameron, Ian Rennell, son of James Cameron of Chelsea, and Frances Mary, d. of Joseph Little of Stamford Hill; b. 20 May 1936; adm. Sept. 1949 (G); left July 1954; Corpus Christi Coll. Oxf., matric. 1954, fenced against Cambridge 1955-8, capt. OUFC 1956-7, BA 1958 (1st class hons Nat. Sci. ), MA 1961, DM 1969, hon. Fellow 2000; St Thomas