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Donald Andrew John Cameron of Lochiel, Baron Cameron of Lochiel (born 26 November 1976), is a
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politician and
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who served as
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from February to July 2024. He was elected a
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for the electoral region of the
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in 2016, serving the Conservative Shadow Cabinet in various roles before his elevation to the
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in 2024. Lord Cameron succeeded his father as the 28th Lochiel, the
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of
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, in 2023.


Early life and education

Born in 1976 at
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, to
Donald Angus Cameron of Lochiel Donald Angus Cameron of Lochiel, (2 August 1946 – 20 October 2023) was the 27th Chief of Clan Cameron. He served as Lord Lieutenant of Inverness from 2002 to 2021. Early life He was the eldest son of four children born to Col. Sir Donald ...
, later 27th Lochiel, and Lady Cecil Cameron (), daughter of
Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian Peter Francis Walter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian, (8 September 1922 – 11 October 2004) was a British peer, politician and landowner. He was the son of Captain Andrew William Kerr by his wife, Marie Kerr. Both of his parents were male ...
, he was educated at
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. Cameron then went up to read
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at
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, graduating MA with
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. After receiving a Diploma in Law from City University, on the
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, Cameron was
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at the
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in 2005. Cameron worked as an
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for ten years before being elected to parliament and acted for a range of clients in
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,
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and
crofting Crofting (Scottish Gaelic: ') is a form of land tenure and small-scale food production peculiar to the Scottish Highlands, the islands of Scotland, and formerly on the Isle of Man. Within the 19th-century townships, individual crofts were est ...
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.


Political career

Cameron stood as the Scottish Conservative candidate in the UK Parliament constituency of Ross, Skye and Lochaber, coming fourth of seven candidates at the 2010 general election with 12.2 per cent of the vote; he came third of the five candidates contesting Orkney and Shetland at the 2015 general election, with 8.9 per cent. At the
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, Cameron finished third in the constituency of
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, but was elected as the Conservatives' third-placed candidate on the Highlands and Islands
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. Scottish Conservative leader
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nominated Cameron to be Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport. The Scottish Conservatives' 2021 Policy Co-ordinator since 2017, Cameron was appointed Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Finance by the Scottish Conservative leader
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in February 2020, and subsequently Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport by his successor Douglas Ross. In May 2021, Cameron was appointed Shadow Cabinet Secretary for the Constitution, External Affairs and Culture. Cameron helped re-establish the Cross-Party Group on Health Inequalities as one of its three co-convenors until May 2021. He was co-convenor of the Cross-Party Group on MS and the vice-convenor of the Cross-Party Group on Gàidhlig as well as sitting on various other cross-party groups, including those on beer and pubs and on crofting. In 2022, Cameron joined
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in calling for
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to resign as Prime Minister over the
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, along with a majority of Scottish Conservative MSPs. Upon the death of his father in October 2023, he succeeded to the chiefship of
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, becoming the 28th Lochiel. Appointed
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in the
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on 9 February 2024, Cameron resigned his Scottish parliamentary seat on the same day, being replaced by Tim Eagle as
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MSP for the Highlands and Islands. He was created a
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on 4 March 2024, taking the title of ''Baron Cameron of Lochiel, of Achnacarry in the County of Inverness'', and was introduced to the
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on 5 March 2024, supported by his kinsmen, former
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David Cameron, Baron Cameron of Chipping Norton, and
Ewen Cameron, Baron Cameron of Dillington Ewen James Hanning Cameron, Baron Cameron of Dillington (born 24 November 1949), is a British farmer, landowner and life peer who sits as a crossbench member of the House of Lords. Early years Lord Cameron is one of five siblings and the sec ...
, a grandson of the 25th Cameron of Lochiel.


Personal life

In 2009, Cameron married Sarah Elizabeth Maclay, only daughter of
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Angus Grenfell Maclay and a niece of Joseph Maclay, 3rd Baron Maclay, . Lord and Lady Cameron have four sons and a daughter.


Ancestry


Coat of arms


See also

*
Lord Lochiel Lord is an appellation for a person or deity who has authority, control, or power over others, acting as a master, chief, or ruler. The appellation can also denote certain persons who hold a title of the peerage in the United Kingdom, or are e ...


References


External links

*
www.lochiel.net
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