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- Anglo-African Who's Who pg 24 https://www.gendatabase.com/books/The%20Anglo-African%20who's%20who%20and%20biographical%20sketch-book.pdf - CANNELL, Cameron Corlett, FRGS, MRCI of Heatherdene, Bagtshot, of Salisbury House, London, EC and of the Blenheim, Sunningdale Golf and other Clubs, was born at Grahamstown, Cape Colony, in 1862, and was educated at Grahamstown and Port Alfred. Mr Cannell was one of the early pioneers of the Rand, where he joined the Johannesburg firm of BM Woolan & Co. Coming to England, Mr Cannell took up the London Agency of several companies controlled by the Woollan group, and very soon entered a larger sphere of usefulness, greatly extending his interests in the Transvaal and Rhodesia. He is a Director of the Consolidated Rand-Rhodesia Trust, the Bulawayo Estate and Trust, the Elandsfontein Deep, Monastery Diamond Mines, the Euro-African Corporation. Belfast GM Co, the Rand Investment Corporation and the "African Review". In the early days of the late SA War, he acted as Hon. Capt on the HQ Staff of the Army Remount Dept. (1899). He is keen on shooting, hunting and motoring, and married, in 1891, Miss Eva Bright. [2]
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