Cameron, John, a learned divine, born in Glasgow, who held several professorial appointments on the Continent; was for a time Principal of Glasgow University; his knowledge was so extensive that he was styled a “walking library,” but he fell in disfavour with the people for his doctrine of passive obedience, and he died of a wound inflicted by an opponent of his views (1579‒1625).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Camerarius * Cameron, Richard