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Cameron (JOHN a Scotch scholar born)

JOHN, a Scotch scholar; born in Glasgow about 1579, and educated at the university of that city. In 1600 he went to the Continent, where his ab ability and erudition secured for him several appointments at Bergerac, Sedan, Saumur, and other seats of learning. Returning to Great Britain in 1620, he was two years later appointed principal of the University of Glasgow; but in less than a year he returned to Saumur, and thence to Montauban, where he received a divinity professorship. Here, as at Glasgow, his doctrine of passive obedience made him many enemies, by one of whom he was stabbed in the street, and he died from the effects of the wound in 1625.