Before The Uprising
Archibald was born in 1707, the sixth child of John Cameron of Lochiel, 18th chief of Clan Cameron, and Isabel Campbell. His father had participated in the failed 1715 Jacobite uprising, and as a result had become an exile living first in Paris, then Boulogne, and not returning to Scotland until November of 1745. Archibald's elder brother (chief in the absence of their father) was Donald Cameron of Lochiel (known in Jacobite history as 'the Gentle Lochiel').
Sent to Glasgow University to study law, Archibald rather took to medicine. He entered the University of Edinburgh, and then completed his studies in Paris and Leyden in Holland. He subsequently returned to the Scottish Highlands, married, and settled in Lochaber, fathering seven children.
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