Alick Cameron

Over the years his interests spanned the breeding of ornamental birds, exotic butterflies, and moths; bonsai (exhibiting at the Chelsea flower show); sailing; collecting antique medical instruments; travelling the world; searching for and photographing wild orchids; studying medical history; researching and writing for the Dictionary of National Biography; honorary archivist to Lord Clifford at Ugbrooke House; choral singing; and performing on stage in many varied and entertaining guises.In 1988 he published A Surgeon's India, Diaries of Lt. Col Alexander Cameron, about his father's life in the Indian medical service, and through his historical research he wrote Thomas Glass M.D. Physician of Georgian Exeter in 1994; The Journal of the Reverend James Darbyshire, a worker-priest of the 18th century (written in old dutch and hieroglyphics, which Sandy interpreted) in 1998; The Book of Trusham, A Parish Patchwork, to celebrate the millennium in 1999; and Charles Causley's Trusham Relatives in 2011.