Alexander Cameron

(Lowland District) Born at Braemar, 1767, a nephew of Bishop Cameron; at Scalan, 31st December 1777 to 14th October 1779; ordained priest and left for Scotland, 2nd June 1793; at Drummond Castle (Perthshire) and Edinburgh, 1793-98; returned to college as vice-rector, 22nd August 1798, and was appointed rector, 24th May 1816; died in the college, 20th September 1833.

Obituary of Alexander Cameron from the Scottish Catholic Directory of 1834.

At Valladolid, in Old Castile, Spain, died, on the 20th September, the Rev. Alexander Cameron, Rector of the Scotch College there, about the age of 66. He was sent to the Seminary of Scalan in December 1777 ; went to Valladolid in October 1779; returned home and was ordained Priest in this country in 1791. As a Missionary, he was employed first in the neighbourhood of Drummond Castle, Perthshire, and afterwards in Edinburgh, till the year 1798, at which period he went back to Spain as Vice-Rector. On the demise of the Rev. John Gordon, he was appointed Rector in 1809, and continued in that capacity till his death. Of the diligence with which he discharged the duties of his office, of the discrimination which he showed in the selection of those whom he sent home to the Mission as Clergymen, of his earnest desire that those brought up under his charge, should, by their talents and zeal, promote the interests of religion, and do honour to the establishment of which he had the superintendence, there are abundant proofs in the several learned and pious Missionaries who were educated under his care, one of whom has lately been raised to the Episcopal dignity. He was the nephew of Bishop Cameron. The College is at present under the charge of the Rev. John Cameron, who went to it as Vice-Rector in the year 1816.