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Chiefs Of Clan Cameron
The following is a list of the Chiefs of Clan Cameron of Lochiel, the senior line of the ancient Cameron family who claim descent from Banquo. The chief is seated at Achnacarry Castle Achnacarry ( gd, Achadh na Cairidh) is a hamlet, private estate, and a castle in the Lochaber region of the Highlands, Scotland. It occupies a strategic position on an isthmus between Loch Lochy to the east, and Loch Arkaig to the west. Ac ... and is uniquely referred to as the Lochiel. References {{reflist, group=lower-alpha Cameron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clan Chief
The Scottish Gaelic word means children. In early times, and possibly even today, Scottish clan members believed themselves to descend from a common ancestor, the founder of the clan, after whom the clan is named. The clan chief (''ceannard cinnidh'') is the representative of this founder, and represents the clan. In the Scottish clan system, a chief is greater than a chieftain (''ceann-cinnidh''), a designation applied to heads of branches of a clan.Adam; Innes of Learney (1970), pp. 154–155. Scottish clans that no longer have a clan chief are referred to as armigerous clans. Functions of the clan chief Historically the principal function of the chief was to lead the clan in battle on land and sea. The chief and the chieftain were at one time in the Scottish Highlands influential political characters, who wielded a large and often arbitrary authority.''Maclean of Ardgour v. Maclean'', p. 636 However, none of this authority now remains. Highland chiefship or chieftainship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Glen Shiel
The Battle of Glen Shiel ( gd, Blàr Ghleann Seile) took place on 10 June 1719 in the West Scottish Highlands, during the 1719 Jacobite Rising. A Jacobite army composed of Highland levies and Spanish marines, was defeated by British troops, reinforced by a Highland Independent Company. The rising was backed by Spain, then engaged in the 1718 to 1720 War of the Quadruple Alliance with Britain. It was intended to support a landing in South-West England, which was cancelled several weeks before; contemporaries on both sides viewed its failure as having fatally damaged the Jacobite cause. Glen Shiel was the only battle of the 1688 to 1746 Jacobite Risings where the Jacobites remained on the defensive, rather than employing the Highland Charge. The battlefield is included in the Inventory of Historic Battlefields in Scotland, and protected by Historic Scotland. The mountain where the action was fought is called Sgurr na Ciste Duibhe; a subsidiary peak named Sgurr nan Spainteach, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second Boer War
The Second Boer War ( af, Tweede Vryheidsoorlog, , 11 October 189931 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, the Anglo–Boer War, or the South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer Republics (the South African Republic and the Orange Free State) over the Empire's influence in Southern Africa from 1899 to 1902. Following the discovery of gold deposits in the Boer republics, there was a large influx of "foreigners", mostly British from the Cape Colony. They were not permitted to have a vote, and were regarded as "unwelcome visitors", invaders, and they protested to the British authorities in the Cape. Negotiations failed and, in the opening stages of the war, the Boers launched successful attacks against British outposts before being pushed back by imperial reinforcements. Though the British swiftly occupied the Boer republics, numerous Boers refused to accept defeat and engaged in guerrilla warfare. Eventually, British scorched earth po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Cameron, 25th Lochiel
Colonel Sir Donald Walter Cameron of Lochiel, (4 November 1876 – 11 October 1951) was a Scottish nobleman and soldier of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders who served in the Second Boer War and the First World War. He was the 25th Lochiel of Clan Cameron, succeeding his father, the 24th Lochiel in 1906. Lochiel began his career as an officer during the Second Boer War in Southern Africa and was later based in India. In 1914 he was asked by Field Marshal Herbert Kitchener to raise the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders and served as Colonel of the regiment from 1914 to 1916. The casualties his battalions sustained during the war was said to have deeply affected him. After the war he retired to his estates in Lochaber with interests in sheep farming and land management. Early life Lochiel was born in 1876 at Dalkeith Palace, the eldest son of Donald Cameron, 24th Lochiel, a diplomat and courtier, and his wife Lady Margaret Scott. His mother was the second daughter of Walter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days was longer than that of any previous British monarch and is known as the Victorian era. It was a period of industrial, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. In 1876, the British Parliament voted to grant her the additional title of Empress of India. Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (the fourth son of King George III), and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After the deaths of her father and grandfather in 1820, she was raised under close supervision by her mother and her comptroller, John Conroy. She inherited the throne aged 18 after her father's three elder brothers died without surviving legitimate issue. Victoria, a constituti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Cameron, 24th Lochiel
Donald is a masculine given name derived from the Gaelic name ''Dòmhnall''.. This comes from the Proto-Celtic *''Dumno-ualos'' ("world-ruler" or "world-wielder"). The final -''d'' in ''Donald'' is partly derived from a misinterpretation of the Gaelic pronunciation by English speakers, and partly associated with the spelling of similar-sounding Germanic names, such as '' Ronald''. A short form of ''Donald'' is ''Don''. Pet forms of ''Donald'' include ''Donnie'' and ''Donny''. The feminine given name ''Donella'' is derived from ''Donald''. ''Donald'' has cognates in other Celtic languages: Modern Irish ''Dónal'' (anglicised as ''Donal'' and ''Donall'');. Scottish Gaelic ''Dòmhnall'', ''Domhnull'' and ''Dòmhnull''; Welsh '' Dyfnwal'' and Cumbric ''Dumnagual''. Although the feminine given name ''Donna'' is sometimes used as a feminine form of ''Donald'', the names are not etymologically related. Variations Kings and noblemen Domnall or Domhnall is the name of many anci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815, near Waterloo, Belgium, Waterloo (at that time in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium). A French army under the command of Napoleon was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition. One of these was a British-led coalition consisting of units from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Kingdom of Hanover, Hanover, Duchy of Brunswick, Brunswick, and Duchy of Nassau, Nassau, under the command of the Duke of Wellington (referred to by many authors as ''the Anglo-allied army'' or ''Wellington's army''). The other was composed of three corps of the Kingdom of Prussia, Prussian army under the command of Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, von Blücher (the fourth corps of this army fought at the Battle of Wavre on the same day). The battle marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars. The battle was contemporaneously known as the Battle of Mont Saint-J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Cameron Of Lochiel (1796-1859)
Captain Donald Cameron of Lochiel (25 September 1796 – 4 January 1859) was a British soldier, distinguished in the Waterloo campaign. The 23rd Lochiel of Clan Cameron, he was additionally the grandson of famed general Sir Ralph Abercromby and the Baroness Abercromby of Aboukir. Early life and career Born at Kinnaird House, Stirlingshire in 1796, the son of Donald Cameron, 22nd Lochiel by his wife Hon. Anne Abercromby, eldest daughter of Sir Ralph Abercromby. He was educated at Harrow School, where all future Cameron chiefs would be educated. In 1814 Lochiel gained the rank of an officer in the Grenadier Guards, and would fight at the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815. He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant and the position of 23rd Chief "Lochiel" of the Clan Cameron. Marriage and children In 1832 Lochiel married Vere Hobart, sister of George Hampden Hobart, 5th Earl of Buckinghamshire of Hampden House, with whom he had the following children: * Anne Louisa Cameron (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Cameron, 22nd Lochiel
Donald Cameron of Lochiel (22 October 1769 – 14 September 1832) was the 22nd Lochiel of Clan Cameron. Biography Born in Gibraltar, he was the eldest son of Charles Cameron of Lochiel and Martha Marshall, daughter of Robert Marshall, quartermaster of the 30th Regiment of Foot. cites After the Battle of Culloden, his grandfather ''The'' ''Gentle Lochiel'' 19th chief of the clan went into exile and his lands were sequestrated by the government. Charles Cameron, son of Lochiel of the 'Forty-Five', was allowed to return to Scotland, and lent his influence to the raising of the Lochiel men for the service of government during the American War of Independence. In 1784, the estates of Lochiel were returned under the general act of amnesty. cites The rogue Lochiel travelled extensively and got into serious debt and in order to raise money, borrowed against some of the Cameron lands. In 1790, he visited Lochaber country for the first time. Shortly afterwards he disclosed to his gua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Cameron Of Lochiel
Charles Cameron of Lochiel (c. 1737 – 31 August 1776) was a Franco-Scottish nobleman, the 21st Lochiel of Clan Cameron. His father was Sir Donald Cameron of Lochiel, known by the sobriquet ''Gentle Lochiel''. In the Jacobite peerage he was the 4th Lord Lochiel. Born in Paris, France to exiled parents, he was first enlisted as an officer in the French service before returning to Scotland. Having outlived his elder brothers John, 20th Lochiel (died 1762) and James (died 1759), the latter having fought in the French and Indian War, Charles succeeded as the Chief of the Camerons. Serving in the 78th Fraser Highlanders, he was due to proceed to America with his company. Upon arriving in Glasgow in 1776, the bells of the Tolbooth were rung in his honour before he died. In 1767 he married Martha Marshall in Gibraltar and was the father of Donald Cameron, 22nd Lochiel (1769–1832), and Archibald Cameron (born 1774), a Bombay merchant and midshipman of the East India Company. His uncl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Treason
Treason is the crime of attacking a state authority to which one owes allegiance. This typically includes acts such as participating in a war against one's native country, attempting to overthrow its government, spying on its military, its diplomats, or its secret services for a hostile and foreign power, or attempting to kill its head of state. A person who commits treason is known in law as a traitor. Historically, in common law countries, treason also covered the murder of specific social superiors, such as the murder of a husband by his wife or that of a master by his servant. Treason (i.e. disloyalty) against one's monarch was known as ''high treason'' and treason against a lesser superior was ''petty treason''. As jurisdictions around the world abolished petty treason, "treason" came to refer to what was historically known as high treason. At times, the term ''traitor'' has been used as a political epithet, regardless of any verifiable treasonable action. In a civil war or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archibald Cameron Of Lochiel
Archibald Cameron of Lochiel (1707 – 7 June 1753) was a Scottish physician and a prominent leader in the Jacobite rising of 1745. The personal physician of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, On 7 June 1753, at Tyburn, he was the last Jacobite to be executed for high treason. In popular memory, he is sometimes referred to as Doctor Archie. Archibald Cameron is generally seen as a benevolent figure, and his execution in 1753 was controversial. His elder brother, Donald Cameron of Lochiel the "Gentle Lochiel", led Clan Cameron during the rising. Before the uprising Archibald Cameron was born in 1707 at Achnacarry, the sixth child (and third surviving son) of John Cameron, 1st Lord Lochiel and Lady Isobel (''née'' Campbell). Cameron's father, the Lord Lochiel, had participated in the failed 1715 Jacobite rising and, as a result, had become an exile, living first in Paris and then Boulogne. Archibald Cameron's elder brother was Donald Cameron of Lochiel, who was the Clan Camer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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