Alexander Campbell Cameron
politician, died 1869
Alexander Campbell Cameron (30 December 1812 – 5 January 1869), known as Alexander Campbell until 1844, was a British Conservative politician.
He was elected Conservative MP for Argyllshire at the 1841 general election but resigned from the seat two years later by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds. He unsuccessfully sought election again at Edinburgh in 1852, and at Inverness Burghs in 1857 and 1859.
Ancestry
The Monzie branch of the Clan Campbell springs from Sir Duncan of Glenorchy, also known as "Black Duncan of Lochow", the patriarch of the house of Breadalbane. Archibald, a younger son of this old knight, inherited from his father various estates in several of the Highland counties, and transmitted them to his lineal descendants, the Campbells of Monzie. The original designation was "of Fonab," a property in Perthshire, near Killiecrankie, where Viscount Dundee was slain; and the tradition is, that Claverhouse fell by a shot fired by Fonab himself, or by one of his dependants who followed his chief to the field. The Fonab of 1702 commanded the British troops sent to protect the interests of the colonists of Darien against the attacks of the Spaniards, and obtained a signal and decisive victory over a vastly more numerous force of the enemy at Toubocante. For this action a gold medal, bearing on one side a plan of the battle, was voted to him by the Directors of the Indian and African Company of Scotland; while the British Crown rewarded him with a grant of a special coat of arms, with supporters, bearing the motto "Quid non pro patria"; and as this latter honour was bestowed on him as "Campbell of Monzie".
Early life and education
Alexander Campbell was born on 30 December 1811. He was the eldest son of Lieutenant-General Alexander Campbell of Monzie, M.P., and his wife Christina Menzies.
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