11 Facts About Cameron Gull

William Cameron Gull was named as one of the executors of his father's will.

Cameron Gull was a barrister of Lincoln's Inn in the City of London, called to the bar in 1886.

At the general election of July 1895, Cameron Gull was elected as the Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament for the Barnstaple division of Devon.

Cameron Gull took an interest in rail transport, rural affairs and in foreign affairs such as the Boxer Rebellion in China and the conduct of the Boer War.

At the 1900 general election, held between 25 September and 24 October, Cameron Gull lost his Barnstaple seat to his Liberal opponent Ernest Joseph Soares.

Cameron Gull was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1918 Birthday Honours At the time of his death he was an alderman of Berkshire County Council.

The elder son, Francis William Lindley Cameron Gull, was born on 1 November 1889 and educated at Eton, leaving the school in 1908.

Cameron Gull served with the rank of Major in the Rifle Brigade, was wounded in France in the summer of 1916 and was eventually killed in action on 25 August 1918.

Cameron Gull became the 3rd Baronet upon his father's death in 1922.

Two years after his wife's death in 1908, Cameron Gull married secondly Evelyn Louisa, a daughter of Sir Thomas Snagge, and with her had a son and a daughter.

Cameron Gull was on the governing body of Abingdon School from 1910 to 1919.