The Rt. Hon. the Lord Cameron of Lochbroom HRSA (born Kenneth John Cameron, 11 June 1931) was a Scottish advocate and judge who served as Lord Advocate of Scotland from 1984 to 1989. The son of Sir John Cameron (also a Lord of Session), Lord Cameron was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Called to the Scottish Bar, Lord Cameron had a prolific legal career that culminated in his appointment as Lord Advocate in 1984, the chief legal officer of the Scottish Government. Upon taking that office, he was created a life peer as Lord Cameron of Lochbroom and sworn of the Privy Council.
After retiring as Lord Advocate in 1989, Lord Cameron was appointed a Senator of the College of Justice, serving as a Scottish Lord of Session until 2003. He remained active in public life thereafter and retired from the House of Lords in 2016. Cameron also maintained connections with Scotland’s cultural institutions, including the Royal Scottish Academy, where he was made an Honorary member in 2003 under the position of a High Court Judge.
Lord Cameron of Lochbroom died peacefully at home in Musselburgh, East Lothian, in January 2025 at the age of 93.
