- Ewen Cameron (banker)
Sir Ewen Cameron
KCMG (23 June 1841 -10 December 1908 ) was a Scottish born accountant and banker who rose to be London head of theHong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation .Born in
Invernessshire , he was the eldest of the offspring of William Cameron ofUpper Muckovie , near Culloden and Catherine, daughter of Ewen Cameron, afarmer ofTomchrasky ,Glen Moriston [ [http://www.clan-cameron.org.au/pedigree.php?personID=I34514&tree=cameron1 Pedigree for Ewan Cameron] , Cameron genealogies] . He joined theCaledonian Bank in 1859 and subsequently the Bank ofHindustan ,China , andJapan which transferred him to itsHong Kong branch in 1866. His abilities, described as "remarkable" byThe Times helped him to land a position with the newly formedHong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation bank after the Bank of Hindustan went into liquidation. Serving first as accountant, he then became the agent of theCalcutta branch, subsequently becoming manager of theShanghai branch, in which position he served until 1890 when he became head of the company's London office. He was knighted in 1901 ["The Times ", Obituary,11 December 1908 ] .During 1904 Cameron was involved with other leading London financiers including
John Baring (2ndBaron Revelstoke ) of Baring Bros., Arthur Francis Levita and W.M. Koch ofPanmure Gordon (Levita's daughter Enid would later marry Cameron's grandson Ewen Donald Cameron in 1930), SirMarcus Samuel ofSamuel Samuel & Co ,Carl Meyer andOtto Kahn in negotiations with the Japanese central banker and laterPrime Minister Takahashi Korekiyo in the selling of war bonds to finance Japanese defense during theRusso-Japanese war [ [http://www.rothschildarchive.org/ib/articles/AR2006Japan.pdf Rothschild archive] , Takahasi Korekiyo, the Rothschilds and the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1907] .After suffering bouts of ill health in 1903 and at the end of 1904, Cameron retired in February, 1905 and died at 41, Mansfield Gardens, London on
10 December 1908 aged 67. He had married Josephine Elizabeth Houchen, daughter of John Houchen ofThetford ,Norfolk in 1878 by whom he had five children. His eldest son, Ewen Allan Cameron, senior partner inPanmure Gordon ["The Times ", "Committee for Bondholders",2 November 1935 ] and member of theCouncil of Foreign Bondholders ["The Times ", "Council Of Foreign Bondholders",24 July 1936 ] (who died14 November 1937 in Vienna ["The Times ", "Deaths",16 November 1937 ] ) was the great grandfather of the Conservative party leaderDavid Cameron [ [http://www.clan-cameron.org.au/pedigree.php?personID=I34518&tree=cameron1 Pedigree for Ewen Donald Cameron] , Cameron Genealogies] [ [http://www.thepeerage.com/p17890.htm#i178900 Ewen Donald Cameron] , thePeerage.com] .Notes
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