Born: 1751, at or near Pan­a­nich (near Ball­a­ter), Ab­er­deen­shire, Scot­land.

Died: November 17, 1811, Kirk­new­ton, Mid­lo­thi­an, Scot­land.

Cameron was the son of a far­mer in the pari­sh of Glen­mu­ick, and a grand­son of Cam­er­on of Glen Ne­vis. He stu­died at the Mar­isch­al Coll­ege, Un­i­ver­si­ty of Ab­er­deen (MA 1770), and was or­dained par­ish min­is­ter of Kirk­new­ton in 1786. Though not a mem­ber of the com­mit­tee ap­point­ed by the Gen­er­al As­sem­bly of 1775 to re­vise the Scot­tish Trans­la­tions and Par­a­phras­es of 1745-51, he seems to have done the bulk of the re­vi­sions there­in. His other works in­clude:

• Po­ems on Var­i­ous Sub­jects (Ed­in­burgh, Scot­land: Gor­don & Mur­ray, 1780)
• Po­ems on Sev­er­al Oc­ca­sions (Ed­in­burgh, Scot­land: A. Con­sta­ble & Co., 1813)

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1. When the Last Trumpet’s Awful Voice