Charles Cameron of Lochiel (c. 1737 – 31 August 1776) was a Franco-Scottish nobleman, the 21st Lochiel of

Clan Cameron Clan Cameron is a West Highland Scottish clan, with one main branch Lochiel, and numerous cadet branches. The Clan Cameron lands are in Lochaber and within their lands lies Ben Nevis which is the highest mountain in the British Isles. The Chie ...

. His father was Sir

Donald Cameron of Lochiel Donald Cameron of Lochiel (c. 1695 – 1748), popularly known as the Gentle Lochiel, was a Scottish Jacobite and hereditary chief of Clan Cameron, traditionally loyal to the exiled House of Stuart. His father John was permanently exiled afte ...

, known by the sobriquet ''Gentle Lochiel''. In the Jacobite peerage he was the 4th Lord Lochiel. Born in

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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

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, Charles succeeded as the Chief of the Camerons. Serving in the

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, 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 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, quartermas ...

(1769–1832), and Archibald Cameron (born 1774), a Bombay merchant and midshipman of the

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. His uncle, Dr

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 ...

, was controversially convicted of treason for a supposed plot against

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and his part in 1745 Rising. He was hung, drawn and beheaded at Tyburn in 1753 and was the last Jacobite to be executed.

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