Relatives of the former

UK prime minister The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the head of government of the United Kingdom. The prime minister Advice (constitutional law), advises the Monarchy of the United Kingdom, sovereign on the exercise of much of the Royal prerogative ...

and former foreign secretary,

David Cameron David William Donald Cameron, Baron Cameron of Chipping Norton (born 9 October 1966) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016. Until 2015, he led the first coalition government in the UK s ...

, feature throughout the law, politics and finance as well as being connected with the

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Immediate family

The younger son of

stockbroker A stockbroker is an individual or company that buys and sells stocks and other investments for a financial market participant in return for a commission, markup, or fee. In most countries they are regulated as a broker or broker-dealer and ...

Ian Donald Cameron (12 October 1932 – 8 September 2010), his mother Mary Fleur Mount (22 October 1934 – 2 February 2025), a Justice of the Peace, was the second daughter of Sir William Mount. His father, Ian Cameron, was born with both legs deformed and underwent repeated operations to correct them. Cameron's parents were married in 1962. Born in London (although sometimes incorrectly reported as being born at Blairmore House near

Huntly Huntly ( or ''Hunndaidh'') is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, formerly known as Milton of Strathbogie or simply Strathbogie. It had a population of 4,460 in 2004 and is the site of Huntly Castle. Its neighbouring settlements include Keith ...

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), his father was brought up at

Peasemore Peasemore is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the England, English ceremonial and historic county of Berkshire in the West Berkshire unitary authority area, west of the A34 road (England), A34 road and north of the town of ...

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, and died near

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on 8 September 2010. Ian's paternal grandmother was Rachel Margaret Geddes, whose family were seated at Blairmore. According to the ''Feminist Times'', as a

magistrate The term magistrate is used in a variety of systems of governments and laws to refer to a civilian officer who administers the law. In ancient Rome, a '' magistratus'' was one of the highest ranking government officers, and possessed both judi ...

, Mary Cameron gave prison sentences for anti-nuclear weapons protesters at the

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. Cameron has two sisters, Tania Rachel (born 1965) and Clare Louise (born April 1971). Camerons2010spelsburu

His elder brother, Alexander Cameron (1963–2023), died of cancer. His wife

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, the elder daughter of Sir Reginald Sheffield and Annabel ''née'' Jones (''now'' Viscountess Astor), is descended from an illegitimate son of

John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby (7 April 164824 February 1721) was an English poet and Tory politician of the late Stuart period who served as Lord Privy Seal and Lord President of the Council. He was also known by his o ...

. Lady Cameron of Chipping Norton, maternal granddaughter of

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Sir Bede Clifford, also counts among her relatives numerous English noble and gentry families.www.burkespeerage.com
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Ancestry

Alexander Geddes

Blairmore House, the birthplace of Ian Cameron, was built by his great-grandfather, Alexander Geddes, who had made a fortune trading grain in

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and returned to

Scotland Scotland is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjac ...

in the 1880s."Highlands for the high life"
''Telegraph'', 26 March 2002; Retrieved 4 September 2007

Aristocratic connections

A descendant, via a

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, of the 13th Lochiel, Chief of Clan Cameron,

was raised to the

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as a Life Baron by

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in 2023, but holds no

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s. However, he has several distant familial connections to the

British nobility The British nobility is made up of the peerage and the gentry of the British Isles. Though the UK is today a constitutional monarchy with strong democratic elements, historically the British Isles were more predisposed towards aristocratic gove ...

. Cameron descends from

King William IV William IV (William Henry; 21 August 1765 – 20 June 1837) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death in 1837. The third son of George III, William succeeded hi ...

and his mistress

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through their illegitimate daughter Lady Elizabeth FitzClarence to the fifth-female-generation Enid Agnes Maud Levita. His father's maternal grandmother, Stephanie Levita (''née'' Cooper), daughter of Sir Alfred Cooper and Lady Agnes Duff (sister of

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) was a sister of Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich, the Conservative statesman and author. His paternal grandmother, Enid Levita, who married secondly in 1961 the Hon. Robert Watson (younger son of the 1st Baron Manton), was the daughter of Arthur Levita and niece of Sir Cecil Levita, chairman of

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in 1928. Through Lord Manton's family, Cameron is also a kinsman of the 3rd Baron Hesketh, Conservative Lords Chief Whip 1991–93. Cameron's maternal grandfather was

Sir William Mount, 2nd Baronet Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Malcolm Mount, 2nd Baronet, TD (28 December 1904 – 22 June 1993), was a British Army officer, High Sheriff of Berkshire and maternal grandfather to David Cameron, former UK Prime Minister and leader of the Co ...

, a

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and

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, and Cameron's maternal great-grandfather was Sir William Mount, 1st Baronet, Conservative MP for Newbury 1910–1922. Lady Ida Feilding, Cameron's great-great grandmother, was the third daughter of William Feilding, 7th Earl of Denbigh, a

courtier A courtier () is a person who attends the royal court of a monarch or other royalty. The earliest historical examples of courtiers were part of the retinues of rulers. Historically the court was the centre of government as well as the officia ...

and

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. Through his descent from

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, Cameron is sixth cousin once removed to

Finance

Cameron's forebears have a long history in

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. His father Ian Cameron was senior partner of the stockbrokers Panmure Gordon & Co., in which firm partnerships had long been held by Cameron's ancestors, including his grandfather and great-grandfather, and was a director of estate agent John D. Wood. His great-great grandfather Emile Levita, a

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who obtained British citizenship in 1871, was a director of the

Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China The Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China (informally The Chartered Bank) was a bank incorporated in London in 1853 by Scotsman James Wilson, under a Royal Charter from Queen Victoria.

which became Standard Chartered Bank in 1969. Sir Ewen Cameron, his patrilineal great-great-grandfather, was London chairman of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, who played a key role in arranging loans from the

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during the

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. Great-grandfather, Ewen Allan Cameron, was a partner of Panmure Gordon

s and served on the boards of the Corporation of Foreign Bondholders, and the Committee for Chinese Bondholders (set up by Bank of England governor, Sir Montagu Norman, in November 1935). In 1982, Ian Cameron was instrumental in establishing

Panama Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America. It is bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north, and ...

nian

Blairmore Holdings Blairmore Holdings, Inc. was an offshore investment company established by Ian Cameron, father of former British Prime Minister, David Cameron. Following the Panama Papers leak, it was discovered that Blairmore Holdings was a customer of Mossack F ...

, an

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fund, valued around $20 million in 1988. This investment fund used controversial

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s until 2006. Ian Cameron was named in the

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, documents leaked in April 2016 from the Panama-based legal and business services company

Mossack Fonseca Mossack Fonseca & Co. () was a Panamanian law firm and corporate service provider.Sir William Dugdale, brother-in-law of Katherine, Lady Dugdale (died 2004, former

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to The Queen), who was Chairman of

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. Birmingham-born documentary filmmaker

Joshua Dugdale Thomas Joshua Stratford Dugdale (born 20 September 1974) is a British farmer, estate owner and documentary film-maker. Education and personal life He attended Eton College, studied economics at the University of Manchester, and law at City, Un ...

is his cousin. Cameron's other notable relations include

Adam Hart-Davis Adam John Hart-Davis (born 4 July 1943) is an English scientist, author, photographer, historian and broadcaster. He presented the BBC television series '' Local Heroes'' and '' What the Romans Did for Us'', the latter spawning several spin-off ...

, Duff Hart-Davis, and Sir Ferdinand Mount, Bt).

Immediate family

Ancestry

Alexander Geddes

Aristocratic connections

Finance

See also

References

Notes

Further reading