Ewen Cameron, Baron Cameron of Dillington

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Ewen Cameron, Baron Cameron of Dillington

Ewen James Hanning Cameron, Baron Cameron of Dillington (born November 24, 1949 ) is a British landowner and life peer .

life and career

Cameron attended Harrow School and studied Modern History at Oxford University .

He has been the manager of the Dillington Estate in Somerset since 1971 . From 1986 to 1987 he was High Sheriff of Somerset. He was the founder of Orchard Media Ltd and from 1989 to 1999 whose chairman ( Chairman ). Cameron was President of the Somerset Federation of Young Farmers' Clubs from 1990 to 1991 . From 1995 to 1997 he was national president of the Country Land and Business Association and from 1997 to 2000 he was a member of the UK Government's Round Table for Sustainable Development , which was followed by the Sustainable Development Commission . From 1998 to 2006 he was chairman ( Chairman ) of Lets Go Travel Ltd . He was Chair of the Countryside Agency from 1999 to 2004 , and from 2000 to 2004 as UK Government's rural advocate for England . Among other things, he attracted public attention that as Chairman of the Countryside Agency he was responsible for the failure- prone supply of British cities with food Hint criticized that urban food supplies were so low that cities only separated nine meals from the outbreak of anarchy.

Cameron has served as Chairman of the Somerset Strategic Partnership since 2004 . From 2006 to 2007 he was President of the Royal Bath and West Society . Since 2006 he has been chairman ( chairman ) of the Airports Direct Travel Ltd and since 2008 director of the Royal Bath and West Society Ltd. He is also a director of Allangrange Farming Company and a member of the Trustee of Vaughan Lee Memorial Hall and the Gooch Charitable Trust .

Cameron has been President of the Guild of Agricultural Journalists since 2010 .

Membership in the House of Lords

Cameron was appointed on 29 June 2004 Life peer as Baron Cameron of Dillington, of Dillington in the County of Somerset appointed. The official introduction to the House of Lords took place on September 7, 2004. He gave his inaugural address on November 30, 2004. He is a crossbencher in the House of Lords .

He names EU agriculture, the environment, nature, rural affairs, food and agriculture in the third world as his political interests. He mentions the states of Africa south of the Sahara as states of interest .

From 2005 to 2009 he was a member of the Agriculture and Environment Sub-Committee . After the 2010 general election , Cameron became ( Co-Chair ) of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Agriculture and Food for Development , along with House MP Tony Baldry .

Honors

In 1989 he became Deputy Lieutenant of Somerset . Cameron became a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors in 1992 , a Fellow of the Royal Agricultural Societies of Great Britain in 1996, and the Royal Society of Arts in 1996 . In 2003 he became a Knight Bachelor .

In 2004 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Law (Hon LLD) degree from the University of Exeter .

family

Cameron is the second son, but the oldest living son of Allan Cameron (born March 25, 1917, † December 4, 2011, second son of Colonel Sir Donald Walter Cameron of Lochiel, KT, XXV Lochiel ) and his wife (Mary) Elizabeth Vaughan-Lee (November 28, 1915 - December 10, 2008), descended from a family who owned land in Somerset. Ewen Cameron is married and has three sons and a daughter.

He currently runs Dillington Park , the family estate that has been in the family for over 250 years and from which part of its title derives. His younger sister Bride is married to Lord Donald Graham , the half-brother of the current Duke of Montrose .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jennifer Cockrall-King: Food and the City - Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution . Prometheus Books, New York 2012, ISBN 978-1-61614-459-3 , p. 29
  2. ↑ Management Council Entry on the Guild of Agricultural Journalists website , accessed on August 14, 2012
  3. ↑ Elizabeth Cameron Obituary for the Telegraph, Jan. 21, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Cameron, Ewen, Baron Cameron of Dillington
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cameron, Ewen James Hanning, Baron Cameron of Dillington (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British landowner and life peer
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1949