Kenneth John Cameron, Baron Cameron of Lochbroom PC FRSE (born 11 June 1931) is a retired Scottish judge who served as

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from 1984 to 1989.

Early life

He is the son of

John Cameron, Lord Cameron John Cameron, Lord Cameron, KT, DSC, PRSE, FBA (8 February 1900 – 30 May 1996) was a Scottish judge and President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1973 to 1976. Life Cameron was born in London, the son of John Cameron SSC NP, a so ...

(1900–1996), a Senator of the College of Justice. Born in

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, he was educated at

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, at

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and at the

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, where he obtained a PhD in 1971 presenting the thesis "Anti-Corn-Law agitations in Scotland, with particular reference to the Anti-Corn-Law League".

Judicial career

He became an Advocate in 1958 and

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in 1972. He was appointed President of the

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for

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in 1976, and Chairman of the Committee of Investigation under the Agricultural Marketing Act 1958 in 1980.

Lord Advocate

Cameron was an Advocate Depute from 1981 and was appointed

in 1984, one of the

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of Scotland, when he was also created a life peer as Baron Cameron of Lochbroom, of

Loch Broom Loch Broom ( gd, Lochbraon, "loch of rain showers") is a sea loch located in northwestern Ross and Cromarty, in the former parish of Lochbroom, on the west coast of Scotland. The small town of Ullapool lies on the eastern shore of the loch. L ...

in the District of Ross and Cromarty, and a

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in 1984. He retired from the Lords on 21 April 2016.

Retirement

Lord Cameron of Lochbroom held office as Lord Advocate until 1989 when he was appointed a Senator of the College of Justice.

Other interests

From 1979 to 1983, while still a QC, Cameron served as chairperson of the influential Edinburgh conservationist organisation the

Cockburn Association The Cockburn Association (Edinburgh's Civic Trust) is one of the world's oldest architectural conservation and urban planning monitoring organisations, founded in 1875. The Scottish judge Henry Cockburn (1779–1854) was a prominent campaigner t ...

, a position his father Lord Cameron held from 1955 to 1968. In 1996, now as Lord Cameron, he served President of the Cockburn Association until he demitted this office in 2010. Lord Cameron of Lochbroom was Chairman of the

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from 1995 until its abolition in 2005, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is the current Honorary President of

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Arms

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* Who's Who in Scotland, 2009 1931 births Living people Lawyers from Edinburgh Lord Advocates Cameron of Lochbroom Senators of the College of Justice People educated at Edinburgh Academy Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Oxford Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom {{Life-peer-stub