John Cameron of Lochiel

John Cameron of Lochiel (1663–1747) was a Scottish Jacobite and the 18th Lochiel of Clan Cameron. He was the father of several prominent Jacobite figures, including Donald Cameron of Lochiel, otherwise known as the Gentle Lochiel, who played an important role in the 1745 Jacobite Rising. Biography John Cameron was the eldest son of Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel and his second wife, Isobel Maclean, daughter of Sir Lachlan Maclean, 1st Baronet. His famed father had been one of the first to join Glencairn's rising for King Charles II, by whose favour he was knighted in 1681. He fought with his father at the Battle of Killiecrankie in 1689.

As acting chief of the clan, Cameron joined the Earl of Mar's forces in the 1715 Rising. At the Battle of Sheriffmuir, he displayed inept military leadership which saw the Camerons routed. He was attainted and forced into exile in France, but nonetheless, on 27 January 1717, was made a Lord of Parliament in Jacobite peerage by the Old Pretender "James III and VIII". Old Lochiel died at Nieuport, French Flanders in 1747. Whether or not he took part in the 1745 Rising is uncertain; unlikely given that he would have been about 80 years old at the time.