, near Spean Bridge, Lochaber After
active service, Cameron worked in London as an accountant and qualified as
FCA. He and his wife lived in
Kensington, London before taking up residence at
Achnacarry Castle upon his succession as Clan Chief in 1951 following the death of his father. His experience as a
chartered accountant helped with the restructuring of the
Cameron estates, which were subject to considerable
death duties upon the death of his father,
Sir Donald Cameron, 25th Lochiel. Through the sale of
Fassiefern and Drimsallie, as well as land on the north side of
Loch Arkaig, Cameron successfully negotiated the austere post-war economic conditions, developing a sustainable future for the regional economy. By the time of his death in 2004, his estate comprised over 90,000 acres. His popularity in the
Scottish Highlands saw him elected a
County Councillor on
Inverness County Council, serving until 1971. At the beginning of a biography of Lochiel's 18th-century great-uncle,
Jacobite Army military chaplain and Roman Catholic Martyr Fr.
Alexander Cameron,
Monsignor Thomas J. Wynne wrote, "At a ceremony to inaugurate the new floodlighting for the
Prince's Monument on an August evening in 1988 at the National Trust Centre,
Glenfinnan, Lochiel addressed a large number of guests who had assembled for the occasion. He described briefly, from the wealth of oral and written tradition handed down in his family, what must have been the scene on the nineteenth of August 1745, when 1,500 Highlanders, among them 800 Camerons, gathered round the Prince's Standard, which was unfurled by the
Duke of Tullibardine, and blessed by Bishop
Hugh MacDonald of
Morar, a relative of '
the Gentle Lochiel'. He mentioned in the address that he was very much aware of the criticisms concerning the wisdom of the '45 Rising, and the
ensuing sufferings of so many innocent Highland people caused by the avenging troops of the
Duke of Cumberland's victorious army, but with a deep legitimate pride, forged by generations of Cameron loyalty to
the Stuart Cause, he spoke these words with such feeling that they struck a chord in the hearts of all his listeners: 'The Rising may have failed, but the Year of the Prince was a glorious year in our history, and we will never forget it!'" He was
Lord Lieutenant of Inverness-shire from 1971 to 1985. In 1973, he was honoured as a
Knight of the Thistle (KT). Following his knighthood, Cameron's
banner hung in
St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh until his death in May, 2004. == Family ==