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Angus Cameron

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Canadian linguist and lexicographer

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According to Wikipedia, Angus Fraser Cameron was a Canadian linguist and lexicographer. Life Cameron was born in Nova Scotia on 11 February 1941 and educated at Truro Senior High School and Mount Allison University before winning a Rhodes Scholarship to Jesus College, Oxford. He was then a lecturer at Mount Allison University before completing a post-graduate degree at Oxford in 1968 entitled "Old English nouns of colour: a semantic study". This was the starting point for his later lexicographical work. In 1968, he was appointed as a lecturer in the Department of English and Centre for Medieval Studies by the University of Toronto, becoming a professor in 1977 and being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1982. His daughter is writer Claire Cameron. He died of cancer in Toronto on 27 May 1983 at the age of 42.

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