Surname: Cameron Forename(s): William C. b. 1822. d. 1889. Nationality: Scottish.
Working-class poet, writing in Scots and English. Born in Dumbarton Castle. Apprenticed
as a shoemaker, and also worked as a stable boy, before moving to Glasgow where he
had his own business that eventually went bankrupt. Worked for the publisher Menzies
& Co. in Glasgow. Author of Light, Shade, and Toil: Poems (1875). Biographical information: Reilly, Mid-Victorian Poetry, p. 80; Goodridge. (AC, CC)