Sir Donald Charles Cameron, GCMG, KBE (3 June 1872 – 8 January 1948) was a British colonial governor.

[4] In 1926, Sir Edward Grigg who at the time was the Governor of British Kenya, called a conference in Nairobi to discuss closer union of Britain's East African colonies of Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika, which Sir William Frederick Gowers of Uganda fully supported.

After a somewhat prolonged diplomatic back and forth Governor Cameron prevailed in making sure that no land in Tanganyika would be taken away from native Africans and given to white settlers.

In Kenya Grigg had attempted to use force to "stamp out the practice," by both declaring it illegal and by arresting any man found to have committed it.

Cameron disagreed with this approach and believed being "heavy handed" would "backfire" and that the British should instead try to persuade people to give up such practices.