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James Cameron (missionary)

1800–1875 · 19th century

James Cameron was a Scottish artisan missionary of the London Missionary Society who worked in Madagascar from 1826 to 1835 and again from 1863 until his death. He introduced crafts such as brickmaking and soap production, and later designed churches and other stone buildings in Antananarivo, including the stone casing of the queen's palace, Manjakamiadana, completed in 1873.

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