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Saturday, February 08, 2025

The Baron Cameron of Lochbroom, PC

 The Baron Cameron of Lochbroom, PC, died a his home 28 January, 2025. He was 93.

He was a Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland, 1989-2003.

Kenneth John Cameron was born 11 June, 1931, son of the Hon Lord Cameron, KT, DSC (1900-1996), a Lord of Session in Scotland, and was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

He served in the Royal Navy 1950-52, commissioned into the RNVR 1951; Admiralty Faculty of Advocates 1958; QC (Scotland) 1972; Standing Junior to the Department of Trasnport, 1964-71, to the DoE 1971-72; Chairman of Industrial Tribunals in Scotland 1966-81; Advocate Depute 1981-84; Lord Advocate 1984-89; Chairman, Pensions Appeals Tribunal (Scotland) 1975, President 1976-84; Chairman: Committee for Investigation in Scotland of Agricultural Marketing Schemes, 1980-84; Chairman, Scottish Civic Trust 1989-95; Chairman Edinburgh New Town Conservation Committee 1991-94; Chairman Royal Fine Arts Commission for Scotland, from 1995; President, Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations 1989-2001; Hon Bencher Lincoln's Inn, 1984; FRSE 1990; Sworn of the Privy Council 1984. He was raised to the peerage of life in 1984 as Baron Cameron of Lochbroom, of Lochbrooom in the District of Ross & Cromarty.

He married Jean Pamela Murray in 1964, and was the father of two daughters.

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