Arthur Edwin Cameron was born in Woodford, Essex on 3 September 1900 and was the son of the architect Edwin Percy Cameron (1871-1953). He studied at the Architectural Association Schools in London and was an RIBA Howard Colls Student in 1921, an Archibald Dawnay Scholar in 1923, an RIBA Henry Jarvis Student at the AA in 1923, and a Grissell Gold Medallist in 1925. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1925.
He commenced practice as an architect in London in the mid-1920s. A design for a house by him was submitted in The "Daily Mail" Ideal Houses Competition for Architects in 1927.
His address was given as 16-17, Devonshire Square, Bishopsgate, London 1922; 18 Eastwood Road, South Woodford, London in 1926; and "Roma", 10 Moor Park Road, Northwood, Middlesex in 1930 and 1939. He died on 19 February 1983. At the time of his death he was living at Coombe Cottage, Lurks Lane, Pitchcombe, Stroud, Gloucestershire,