Cameron, George Gordon

CAMERON, GEORGE GORDON: Free Church of Scotland; b. at Pluscarden (a village near Elgin, 71 m. n.w. of Aberdeen), Elginshire, Sept. 13, 1836. He was educated at University and King's College, Aberdeen (M.A., 1860), Free Church College, Aberdeen (1860–62), and New College, Edinburgh (1863–65). He was a tutor on the Continent in 1862—63 and in 1865–66 was assistant minister in Leghorn, Italy. He was then assistant minister in Dundee, Scotland, for a year and at Kuthrieston, Aberdeen, in 1867–69, and after another year as temporary professor of Hebrew in Free Church College in 1869–70 was assistant minister for brief periods at St. Andrews, Edinburgh, London, and North Leith in 1870–71. In the latter year he was ordained associate minister of St. John's Free Church, Glasgow, and retained this position until 1882, when he was appointed to the chair of Old Testament language and literature in the United Free Church College, Aberdeen, where he still remains. He is a member of various committees for the general work of his sect, and has written, in addition to contributions to periodicals, Memorials of John Roxburgh (Glasgow, 1881).