David Cameron is the current British prime minister and leader of the Conservative Party and is the member of parliament for Witney in Oxfordshire. He has been prime minister since May 2010 when the Conservative Party formed a coalition with the Liberal democrats.

Personal Life

David William Cameron was born in London on 9th October 1966, he is the youngest son of Ian Donald Cameron (who died whilst on holiday in France in September 2010) and Mary Fleur Cameron (nee Mount). He has one brother Allan Alexander (born 1963) and two sisters, Tania Rachel (born 1965) and Clare Louise (born 1971).

He is married to Samantha Cameron (often known as Sam Cam) they married in 1996 Their first child Ivan Reginald Ian was born in April 2002 with a rare combination of cerebal palsy and epilepsy. He died in February 2009 aged six. The couple have three other children Nancy Gwen (born 2004), Arthur Elwen (2006) and Florence Rose Endellion (2010).

Cameron comes a long line of ancestors who were aristocrats and involved in politics and finance, to give just a few examples; he is a descendant of King William IV (1765 –1837) and his mistress Dorothea Jordan.

His father and grandfather were both senior partners at Panmure Gordon. His great great grandfather Emile Levita was the director of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China which became Standard Chartered Bank in 1969. Emile's son Arthur along with David's great great grandfather Sir Ewen Cameron - who was then London head of the Hong Kong Shanghai Bank - were involved in selling war bonds to finance Japanese defence during Russo-Japanese war. His mother Mary is the second daughter of Sir William Malcolm Mount, 2nd Baronet, and is descended from a long line of Tory MPs.

Education

When he was seven David Cameron attended Heatherdown Preperatory School in Berkshire where he entered its top academic class nearly two years early. Aged thirteen he went on to Eton College and just before he was due to sit his O'levels he was nearly expelled when he was named as having smoked cannabis. It was only because he admitted the offence and was not involved in selling drugs that he was not expelled.

He left Eton in 1984 and before going to Oxford university he worked as a researcher for Conservative MP Tim Rathbone and was then employed by Jardine Matheson in Hong Kong. Returning from Hong Kong he visited Moscow where he met a friend they traveled to Yalta on the Black sea coast where two Russians speaking perfect English began talking to them, took them to dinner and asked them about politics and life in England. Cameron was later told by an Oxford professor that it was an attempt by the KGB to recruit him.