Chief Of Clan Cameron Visiting Christchurch

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31908, 8 February 1969, Page 14

Chief Of Clan Cameron Visiting Christchurch

About 40 members of the Clan Cameron and its septs will be able to meet their chief on Monday afternoon. Colonel D. H. Cameron of Lochiel, twenty-sixth chief of the Clan Cameron, who is making a New Zealand visit, will arrive with his wife from Mount Cook this afternoon. While in Christchurch Colonel Cameron and Mrs Cameron will visit friends. Before they leave by air for Australia on Monday they will meet members of the clan at a private function at the airport restaurant. The meeting of the Camerons in Christchurch has been arranged by Mr H. Cameron, a Heathcote Valley orchardist. There is no Clan Cameron organisation in Christchurch at present, and Mr Cameron was concerned that COlonel Cameron, the only reigning chief of the

clan to visit New Zealand, would not be entertained by clan members as he and his wife have been in Auckland and Dunedin.

To get in touch with Camerons in Christchurch, Mr Cameron made 90 telephone calls. He thinks about 40 Camerons are likely to attend the gathering. The 12 septs of the clan include such names as Kennedy, Taylor, Maclldow and Mac Hale. Colonel Cameron, who is addressed as Lochiel in public, succeeded his father as chief of the clan in 1961. He was educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford. He joined the Lovat Scouts in 1929 and from 1955 to 1957 commanded the 4/sth Battalion, Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders (in the Territorial Army). From 1958 to 1967 he was honorary colonel of the battalion, and since 1967 he has been honorary colonel of the 3rd (Territorial) Battalion, Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons). Colonel Cameron is a chartered accountant. He has been deputy-chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland since 1965. He was a part-time member of the British Railways Board from 1962 to 1964, and is a former chairman of the Scottish Area Board of the British Transport Commission. He is also a Crown Estate Commissioner.

Mrs Cameron, who is addressed as Lady Lochiel in public, is the eldest daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. N. Gathorne-Hady. She visited New Zealand for the first time when she was eight years of age.