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CAMELFORD 505 was b. at Ware Park, Herts, 5 Oct. 1738, d. 5 May 1803, aged 64, at Camelford House, Park Lane, MIdx. Will pr. May 1803. II. 1793 2. Thomas (Pitt), Lord Camelford, Baron of to BocoNNoc, only s. and h., b. 19, and bap. 20 Feb. 1775, 1804. at Boconnoc; ed. at Berne, in Switzerland, and after- wards at Charterhouse School, London; Commander in the Royal Nav}' 1797-98. He was a Whig. He d. unm., at Little Holland House, Kensington, 10 Mar. 1804, aged 29, from the effects of a duel fought on the 7th (with Capt. Thomas Best), when the Peerage became extinct. He was bur. 17 Mar. 1804, at St. Anne's, Soho. He desired to be bur. in a secluded spot near the Lake of St. Lampierre, in the canton of Berne, Switzerland, without "monument or stone,"() but his instructions were never carried out owing to the outbreak of war with France. Will pr. Aug. 1804. CAMERON See "Fairfax of Cameron," Barony [S.] {Fairfax), cr. 1627. John Cameron, s. and h. of the famous Sir Ewan Cameron, of Lochiel (which Ewan was s. and h. of ( — ) C. who d. v.p., who was s. and h. of Allan C, who d. aged over 80), having joined in the Rising of 1 71 5, fought at Sheriffmuir, and afterwards fled to Uist, whence he escaped to the Continent. On 27 Jan. 171 6/7, he was cr., by the titular James III, LORD LOCHIEL. He d. abroad, in 1745.C') (*) See an account of him and of his numerous eccentricities in Sir B. Burke's Romance of the Aristocracy, ed. 1855, ^'o^- •'» PP- 350"359; •'^'5° '" ^^^ Annual Register for 1 804. He was found guilty of wilful murder by a Barbados jury in 1795, for killing a man who resisted his press gang in that island. " His was a turbulent, rakehelly, demented existence. He revived in his person all the pranks and outrage of the Mohawks. Bull terriers, bludgeons, fighting of all kinds were associated with him; riots of all kinds were as the breath of his nostrils." (Lord Rosebery, 1910). His only sister Anne, ^.10 Sep. 1772, who m. William Wyndham (Grenville), Baron Grenville, d. a widow and s.p., 13 June 1864, in her 92nd year. V.G. C") He was father of Donald ("The Gentle Lochiel"), who fought gallantly at Culloden in 1746. f'or a list of Jacobite peerages see vol. i. Appendix F. 65