Maud Cameron
Maud Martha Cameron was a teacher and school headmistress from Australia.
Cameron was born in Melbourne in 1886. She was the first of four children of Ewen Cameron, a grazier who later became a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, and his wife Emma Harriet, née Nunn, both of whom had been born in Victoria.
Cameron was educated at Presbyterian Ladies' College and the University of Melbourne. She graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in 1908 and master's degree in education in 1911. For 43 years, from 1911 to 1954, she was headmistress of Firbank Church of England Girls' Grammar School, Brighton, and from 1936 to 1937 she was president of the Victorian Association of Headmistresses. Prior to her tenure at Firbank she was on the teaching staff of Lauriston Girl's School and Presbyterian Ladies' College.
In 1955 she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire.
