Afterthoughts - Sir Donald Cameron was by any standards a very remarkable man. Born in the West Indies of a poor Irish family, he was largely self-educated, and if one may judge by the result he must have been a brilliant teacher. He entered the Colonial Service at the bottom in a minor clerical post and rose to the top of it, but that was perhaps the least important thing about him. He once told me that his first post in the Civil Service, which was also the occasion of his introduction to problems of race and colour, was as an unpaid boy sorter in the British Honduras Post Office during the Christmas rush, a post he had taken hoping to get a permanent job. But he quarrelled with a negro working beside him and kicked him and was promptly sacked. "And quite right too; but in South Africa they would have sacked the negro," he added in his caustic way. Cameron was a tremendous worker, accurate and quick, with a wide knowledge of public finance and indeed of nearly all branches of the public business. He was in fact an expert in the science of administration, although surprisingly lacking in knowledge of Africans and the forms and nature of tribal authority ........ But what he had, above all things, was an almost passionate devotion to justice and fair play and a deep, largely instinctive feeling of sympathy for the poor and the weak ....... Cameron was tall, thin and severe of expression when his face was in repose; he liked to be thought a strong, harsh man and took some pains to create that image of himself. But in fact he was gentle by nature, rather shy and kind-hearted to a fault. He could only with difficulty be persuaded to take strong disciplinary action and was, I fear, sometimes imposed upon in the course of his considerable private benevolences, which he kept very much to himself. He had, certainly, strong dislikes and about people he disliked he would say the most outrageous, even apparently ill-natured, things; but I do not believe that he ever hated a human being in all his life. He had a whimsical humour and a Puckish, if at times caustic, wit, which he liked to exercise particularly about people who were pompous or had a higher opinion of themselves than he thought warranted by fact. He was outspoken and uncompromising in controversy and had little patience with euphemism. He made enemies, of course; that is inherent in all exercise of authority. He made fewer friends, but those he made were devoted to him and he to them; indeed it has to be admitted that he sometimes showed partiality to his friends; if that be a sin, it is certainly not a deadly one. And, if ever there was one, he was an individualist.

Has entry in ODNB and Wikipedia - married to Gertrude

1901 England Census Donald Cameron is m. to Hellen Gittens with a baby Hellen. ODNB and Wikipedia entry say he had only a son. His Family Tree entry in Ancestry has him married to Hellen, with dau Hellen.

Passenger list on way to Nigeria has him m. to Gertrude. Hellen had a younger sister Gertrude. Could Hellen have died and Cameron married her sister?