Following the Battle of Culloden, his grandfather The Gentle Lochiel (19th chief of the clan) went into exile and the Cameron lands were sequestrated by the government.
Charles Cameron was allowed to return to Scotland, and lent his influence to the raising of the Lochiel men for the government service during the American War of Independence.
[2][3] Lochiel travelled extensively on a Grand Tour of Europe and got into serious debt; and in order to raise money borrowed against some of the Cameron lands.
[4] Estranged from his family, Lochiel spent the rest of his life in France, in residence at Toulouse where he died in 1832, aged 63.
[1][2] They had four children: This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Anderson, William (1859), ""Cameron"", The Scottish Nation, Or the Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours and Biographical History of The People of Scotland, vol.