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Lieutenant Colonel
Angus Cameron
Bey
Governor of Mongalla Province
In office
January 1906 – January 1908
Succeeded byCecil Stephen Northcote
Governor of Kassala Province
In office
January 1908 – July 1909
Governor of Sennar Province
In office
January 1913 – 5 September 1921
Personal details
Born25 October 1871
Nairn
Died7 January 1961 aged 89
Nairn
NationalityUnited Kingdom
Military service
UnitQueen's Own Cameron Highlanders; Egyptian Army

Angus Cameron(1871-1961) was a British military officer and colonial administrator, the first governor of Mongalla Province in the south of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan between 1906 and 1908 and later governor of Kassala and Sennar provinces.

Early life

Cameron was born in Nairn on 25 October 1871.[1] His father was James Angus Cameron, MD, BSc, DL.[2] He attended school at Darlington, then in February 1891 went to Sandhurst Military Academy for a year. He gained a commission in the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders on 18 May 1892, became Lieutenant in 1893 and Captain in 1896. In July 1899 he was seconded to the Egyptian army, and as an officer of the IXth Sudanese he fought at the Battle of Gedid. He was appointed Senior Inspector of Sennar.[1] Cameron remained in the Egyptian army service and that of the Sudan Government until he retired in 1921.[3]

Senior officer in Sudan

In January 1906 Cameron was appointed the first governor of Mongalla Province.[1] Six members of the Gordon Memorial Sudan Mission arrived at Mongalla on the upper Nile in January 1906. Angus Cameron did his best to discourage them from settling in the province.[4] He wanted to avoid friction with the Muslims who had undertaken most of the work of building and servicing the new provincial capital. Cameron suggested that the missionaries move to the Bor region instead.[5]

In January 1908 Cameron became Governor of Kassala Province. He was appointed a Major in March 1909, and in July 1909 was seconded for service with the Sudan Government. In January 1913 he was appointed Governor of Sennar Province.[1] He was described as "a rather peppery little Major".[6]

Cameron served with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in the Western Desert during World War I, and was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in June 1919.[1] In December 1919, as governor of Sennar province, he granted a petition from six Ta’isha shaykhs to return to Darfur, from where they had moved during the reign of the Kalifa.[7] Between December 1919 and April 1920 he was involved in operations to subdue the Garjak Nuer tribe in the Upper Nile. They had raided their neighbors, the Burun in December 1919.[1]

Later life

Cameron received the Order of the Medijidie, 3rd class, on 10 December 1907 and the Order of the Nile, second class, on 28 March 1919. He retired on 5 September 1921 and returned to Nairn.[1] On 12 September 1923 he married Florence Muriel Allanby, who was born about 1883.[2] When his father died in November 1924, Angus Cameron inherited the family house of Firhall He died on 7 January 1961 at the age of 89.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Lieutenant-Colonel Angus Cameron". DNW. Retrieved 2011-08-01.
  2. ^ a b "My Family Tree". BeanWeb. Retrieved 2011-08-01.
  3. ^ George Bain (1928). History of Nairnshire. "Telegraph" office,. p. 386.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  4. ^ Robert O. Collins, Francis Mading Deng (1984). The British in the Sudan, 1898-1956: the sweetness and the sorrow. Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University. p. 176. ISBN 0817980210.
  5. ^ Lilian Passmore Sanderson, Neville Sanderson (1981). Education, religion & politics in Southern Sudan, 1899-1964. Ithaca Press. p. 51. ISBN 0903729636.
  6. ^ Edwin Geoffrey Sarsfield-Hall (1975). From Cork to Khartoum: memoirs of Southern Ireland and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1886 to 1936. The author. p. 40.
  7. ^ Hassan Ahmed Ibrahim (2004). Sayyid ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Mahdī: a study of neo-Mahdīsm in the Sudan, 1899-1956. BRILL. p. 30. ISBN 9004138544.