Ewen James Hanning Cameron, Baron Cameron of Dillington, (born 24 November 1949) is a landowner and cross-bench member of the House of Lords.
Educated at Harrow School and at Oxford University, where he studied modern history, he has been manager of the Dillington Estate in Somerset since 1971. He was national president of the Country Land and Business Association from 1995 to 1997 and was a member of the UK Government's Round Table for Sustainable Development from 1997 until 2000, when it was abolished to create the Sustainable Development Commission. He was Chair of the Countryside Agency from 1999 to 2004 and was the UK Government's rural advocate for England from 2000 to 2004.
He was appointed High Sheriff of Somerset for 1986 [1] and raised to a life peerage as Baron Cameron of Dillington, of Dillington in the County of Somerset on 29 June 2004, having been knighted the previous year.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and of the Royal Agricultural Societies. Since 2010, he has been President of the Guild of Agricultural Journalists.[2]
Lord Cameron, the second but elder surviving son of Allan Cameron (born 25 March 1917, second son of Colonel Sir Donald Walter Cameron of Lochiel, K.T., XXV Lochiel) by his wife (Mary) Elizabeth Vaughan-Lee (28 November 1915 – 10 December 2008) who was descended from a Somerset-based land-owning family, is married, and has three sons and one daughter. He presently farms Dillington Park, the country estate which has been in his mother's family for over 250 years, and from which he has taken part of his title.[3] His younger sister Bride is married to Lord Donald Graham, half-brother of the present Duke of Montrose.
Following the 2010 General Election, Lord Cameron has become co-chair of the APPG on Agriculture and Food for Development alongside Tony Baldry MP.