Former senior lecturer in pathology Edinburgh (b 1922; q Belfast 1945; MD, FRCPath, OBE), died from heart failure on 27 January 2006.
Hector Cameron helped set up the medical school in Nairobi, where he did ground breaking work on Kaposi's sarcoma and developed a clinic for the Maasai in the Rift Valley. He was president of the Medical Missionary Society, founding member of Amnesty International, early adopter of Shelter, long term supporter of the Medical Foundation for Victims of Torture, and member of a peace delegation from the Oxford Research Group to China to debate the hazards of nuclear weapons. On his return from Kenya, he took up a senior post in Edinburgh and continued, there and on retirement in Peebles, his deep commitment to the church in his work for the Borders Council on Alcohol. He leaves a wife, Frances; four children; and 10 grandchildren.
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