John William Cameron

John William Cameron (2 October 1841 - 28 December 1896) was an English brewer who owned Camerons Brewery of Hartlepool, County Durham.

Life

Cameron was born in Kirkby Stephen, Westmorland, on 2 October 1841, the son of Ewen and Hannah (née Tomlin) Cameron.[1][2] His family was of Scottish 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 1889-1890.[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

  1. ↑ http://46.32.255.219/pdf/1897/June-09/June-09-1897-08.pdf
  2. 1 2 3 http://46.32.255.219/pdf/1895/October-30/October-30-1895-05.pdf
  3. ↑ https://theses.ncl.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/10443/199/1/bennison92.pdf
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ Robert Wood (1969). West Hartlepool: the rise and development of a Victorian new town. Hartlepool County Borough.
  6. ↑ http://teesdalemercuryarchive.org/pdf/1887/August-24/August-24-1887-08.pdf#search="colonel cameron"
  7. 1 2 Camerons Brewery History | Camerons Brewery
  8. 1 2 Toast to the hospital built thanks to beer - Hartlepool Mail
  9. ↑ "Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries." Morning Post [London, England] 26 May 1897: 3. 19th Century British Newspapers. Web. 16 Apr. 2014.
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