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Charles Hay Cameron (11 February 1795 – 8 May 1880) was a British jurist. He was married to the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron . Personal life [ edit] Cameron was the son of Charles Cameron, governor of the Bahama Islands, by Lady Margaret Hay, daughter of James Hay, 15th Earl of Erroll.
Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–79) was one of the most important and innovative photographers of the 19th century. Her photographs were rule-breaking: purposely out of focus, and often including scratches, smudges and other traces of the artist’s process.
Charles Hay Cameron (The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection); 1864; Julia Margaret Cameron (British, born India, 1815 - 1879); Albumen silver print; Image: 29.2 × 22.4 cm (11 1/2 × 8 13/16 in.);
In 1836, convalescing from an illness at the Cape of Good Hope, Julia Margaret Pattle met the scientist and astronomer Sir John Herschel and the classical scholar and jurist Charles Hay Cameron, twenty years her senior. Two years later, in February 1838, she and Cameron were married in Calcutta.
Title: Charles Hay Cameron. Artist: Julia Margaret Cameron (British (born India), Calcutta 1815–1879 Kalutara, Ceylon) Date: 1864. Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative. Classification: Photographs. Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941. Accession Number: 41.21.1.1
Charles Hay Cameron (1795-1880), once described by Alfred, Lord Tennyson as “a philosopher with his beard dipped in moonlight,” was educated at Eton College and Oxford University. An...
Despite their status, Cameron and her legal scholar husband, Charles Hay Cameron, had little money. In the 1870s, with debts piling up, she attempted to trade on Tennyson’s phenomenally...
