[3] He served a six-year brewing apprenticeship at the Bank Brewery in Barnard Castle.
[2] In 1865 he joined the Lion Brewery in West Hartlepool as manager.
[4] Upon the death of the owner, William Waldon Jr, in 1872, Cameron secured a 21-year lease on the brewery and 16 public houses.
[5] In 1881 he married Emma Victoria, the daughter of Edgar Chapman of Adelaide at Tunbridge Wells.
[6] When Cameron's lease expired in 1893, he purchased the brewery outright from the Waldon family for £34,442 (£3.8 million in 2012), and he appointed his brother Watson as managing director.