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| <tab>One of the most successful Glengarrians of his time, Cameron maintained no contact except through a few letters with Glengarry in the years of his fame and success. Cameron, no enemy to conspicuous consumption, was a dedicated, triumphantly successful player in the flamboyant and extravagant life of the wealthy American upper class of his day. He seems from such evidence as survives today to have been intelligent, masterful, courteous, polished and cosmopolitan, but also aggressive, manipulative, self-centered, and indifferent to the humble and the unfortunate. There seems to be no reliable contemporary record of how wealthy he really was. But in any case there was enough money for the family to continue his lavish lifestyle afterwards. | <tab>One of the most successful Glengarrians of his time, Cameron maintained no contact except through a few letters with Glengarry in the years of his fame and success. Cameron, no enemy to conspicuous consumption, was a dedicated, triumphantly successful player in the flamboyant and extravagant life of the wealthy American upper class of his day. He seems from such evidence as survives today to have been intelligent, masterful, courteous, polished and cosmopolitan, but also aggressive, manipulative, self-centered, and indifferent to the humble and the unfortunate. There seems to be no reliable contemporary record of how wealthy he really was. But in any case there was enough money for the family to continue his lavish lifestyle afterwards. |
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| <tab>See also [[craig_james|James Craig]] and Dr Roderick MacLeod this dictionary. | <tab>See also [[craig_james|James Craig]] and [[mcleod_roderick|Dr Roderick McLeod]] this dictionary. |
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| <tab>Pat Cavendish O’Neill’s //A Lion in the Bedroom// (592 pp., Park Street Press, 2004, 2005) is a sensational, entertaining and historically important memoir of high society life in Australia and the United States, but mainly in Europe and Africa, with material on a branch of Sir Roderick’s descendants. The book includes in its cast the legendary financier Bernard Baruch, the author Somerset Maugham, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Prominent in the book is the author’s adored half brother, another Roderick William Cameron (1913-1985), author, aesthete, wealthy restorer of a villa on the Mediterranean, man of magnetic personality, and AIDS victim. He was the grandson of Sir Roderick Cameron and is said to have been involved in the preparation of one of the twentiethth century’s historical classics, H. R. Trevor-Roper’s //The Last Days of Hitler//. | <tab>Pat Cavendish O’Neill’s //A Lion in the Bedroom// (592 pp., Park Street Press, 2004, 2005) is a sensational, entertaining and historically important memoir of high society life in Australia and the United States, but mainly in Europe and Africa, with material on a branch of Sir Roderick’s descendants. The book includes in its cast the legendary financier Bernard Baruch, the author Somerset Maugham, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Prominent in the book is the author’s adored half brother, another Roderick William Cameron (1913-1985), author, aesthete, wealthy restorer of a villa on the Mediterranean, man of magnetic personality, and AIDS victim. He was the grandson of Sir Roderick Cameron and is said to have been involved in the preparation of one of the twentiethth century’s historical classics, H. R. Trevor-Roper’s //The Last Days of Hitler//. |
