See also:SIR EWEN See also:CAMERON OF LOCHIEL (1629-1719)
, Scottish Highland chieftain, was the eldest son of See also:John See also:Cameron and the See also:grandson of Alan Cameron, the See also:head of the See also:clan Cameron
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Having lost his See also:father in See also:infancy he passed See also:part of his youth with the See also:marquess of See also:Argyll at See also:Inveraray, leaving his See also:guardian about 1647 to take up his duties as See also:chief of the clan Cameron, a position in which he succeeded his grandfather
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In 1653 Lochiel joined the See also:earl of See also:Glencairn in his rising on behalf of See also:Charles II., and after the defeat of this See also:attempt he served the Royalist cause by harassing See also:General See also:- MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
Monk
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In 1681 he was knighted by Charles II., and in See also:July 1689 he was with See also:Viscount See also:Dundee at See also:Killiecrankie
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He was too old to See also:share personally in the Jacobite rising of 1715, but his sympathies were with the Stuarts, and his son led the Camerons at See also:Sheriffmuir
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Lochiel, who died in See also:February 1719, is called by See also:Macaulay the "Ulysses of the See also:Highlands." He was a See also:man of enormous strength and See also:size, and one who met him in 1716 says " he wrung some See also:blood from the point of my fingers with a grasp of his See also:hand." An incident showing his strength and ferocity in single combat is used by See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott in The See also:Lady of the See also:Lake (See also:canto v.)
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Lochiel's son and successor, John, who was attainted for sharing in the See also:rebellion of 1715, died in See also:Flanders in 1748
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John's son Donald, sometimes called " See also:gentle Lochiel," joined Charles See also:Edward, the See also:Young Pretender, in 1745, was wounded at See also:Culloden, and escaped to See also:France, dying in the same See also:year as his father
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The 79th See also:regiment, or Cameron Highlanders, was raised from among the members of the clan in 1793 by Sir Alan Cameron (1753–1828)
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See See also:Memoirs of Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel (See also:Bannatyne See also:Club, 1842)
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