Alexander Cameron

Alexander Cameron S.J. (1701 – 19 October 1746) was a Scottish nobleman, servant to Prince Charles Edward Stuart, and Roman Catholic priest in the Society of Jesus. After travelling in Catholic Europe and the Caribbean, Cameron converted from the Non-Juring Anglican Communion to Roman Catholicism and was ordained as a priest. Fr. Cameron ran a highly successful vicariate for the still illegal and underground Catholic Church in Scotland in Lochaber and Strathglass before serving as a military chaplain to the regiment of the Jacobite Army commanded by his brother, Donald Cameron of Lochiel, during the Uprising of 1745. After the Battle of Culloden, Fr. Cameron was captured by the British Army and died of the hardships of his imprisonment while being held without trial aboard a prison hulk anchored in the Thames River. He is currently being promoted by the Knights of St Columba for Canonization by the Roman Catholic Church. Early life Alexander Cameron was born in September 1701 at Achnacarry, Scotland. He was son of John Cameron, Lord Lochiel and the brother of Donald Cameron of Lochiel, who would later become the Chief of Clan Cameron and lead a regiment in the Jacobite Uprising of 1745. Alexander Cameron was raised as a Non-Juring Episcopalian, and was educated in Achnagarry. He also attended a boarding school in St. Ninian's near Stirling. As a young man, Cameron travelled to the West Indies on family business, but did not enjoy it. He then joined the French Army, after which he travelled throughout Europe. After arriving in the Papal States, Cameron became a servant in the household of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, heir apparent to Prince James Francis Edward Stuart, the eldest son of King James II and pretender to the English throne.