John Cameron, Lord Cameron

John Cameron, Lord Cameron KT DSC PRSE FBA (8 February 1900, London - 30 May 1996, Edinburgh) was a Scottish judge, and President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1973 to 1976.[1] He was elected a Senator of the College of Justice on 5 July 1955.

In 1969 Lord Cameron undertook, at the request of the British Government, an inquiry into the civil unrest that had broken out in Northern Ireland.[2] Cameron determined that

"[c]ertain at least of those who were prominent in the Association had objects far beyond the 'reformist' character of the majority of Civil Rights Association demands, and undoubtedly regarded the Association as a stalking-horse for achievement of other and more radical and in some cases revolutionary objects, in particular abolition of the border, unification of Ireland outside the United Kingdom and the setting up of an all-Ireland Workers' Socialist Republic."[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Lord Cameron" (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 6 June 2011.
  2. ↑ Lord Cameron, Disturbances in Northern Ireland: Report of the Commission appointed by the Governor of Northern Ireland (Belfast, HMSO, 1969)
  3. ↑ Lord Cameron, 'Disturbances in Northern Ireland: Report of the Commission appointed by the Governor of Northern Ireland' (Belfast, 1969)