"The Last Jacobite Martyr - Doctor Archibald Cameron" - by Sonia Cameron Jacks.
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A fascinating 30 page booklet with black and white illustrations and map , being a short account of the life and untimely death of Doctor Archibald Cameron, 1707 - 1753.
Our former Council member Sonia Cameron Jacks sadly passed away in April this year but she has left behind this work, first published in 2013 and revised in 2018, which is an expression of her lifelong interest in Archibald Cameron of Lochiel, the last man to die for the cause of the Royal house of Stuart.
Doctor Archie was a man to whom the Hippocratic Oath came naturally, famously tending the wounded of both sides after the battle of Prestonpans, but whose unswerving loyalty to his king, James VIII, brought about his betrayal, capture, trial and public execution at Tyburn Tree on 7th June 1753.
Read of the good doctor's valiant service from the Raising of the Standard at Glenfinnan on 19th August 1745, his part in the skirmish at Ruthven Barracks, the siege of Edinburgh, the march to Derby, his significant part in the occupation of Glasgow....
Wounded at Falkirk Muir, the last Jacobite victory he went on to take part in the siege of Fort William then on to that fateful day on Drumossie Muir, tending his wounded brother and hence skulking with his prince and taking care to be a custodian of the Loch Arkaig gold before sailing on the L'Hureux with Prince Charlie.
Undaunted, Archie returned on secret visits to his homeland until his luck ran out in March 1753.
We pay tribute to the gallant doctor on our annual visits to London, for he lies in the vault of the King's Chapel of the Savoy.
Read more of his life and devotion in this account, described as a "great, good man".
21cm x 14.5cm
