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Capt.Ludovick Charles Richard Duncombe-Jewell Cameron (bornRichard Duncombe Jewell; 10 September 1866 – 22 February 1947) was a British eccentric who was variously a soldier, war and sports journalist, sportsman, poet, and champion of theCornish language. He repeatedly changed his name and claimed to be the Chieftain ofCameron of Erracht.
Cameron was born atLiskeard inCornwall, the son of Richard Jewell and Mary Cluett Isaac. His parents were members of thePlymouth Brethren. He was educated privately. He converted toCatholicism in 1891 and changed his first name to Ludovick.[1]
He assumed the additional surname Duncombe in accordance with his grandmother's will in 1895 and in 1904 assumed the additional surname Cameron when he married his second wife, Janet Sarah Bruce, daughter of Gen.Robert Bruce of Glendouglie. He also changed his name from Louis to Ludovick Charles.[2][1]
When he was 14, his parents moved to South London, which brought him into contact with the occultistAleister Crowley. The two remained lifelong associates.
Formerly a Lieutenant in the 3rd Volunteer Battalion of theRoyal Fusiliers, he representedThe Times in Spain during the rumours of an impendingCarlist rising in 1898–99, and served as a Special War Correspondent for theMorning Post newspaper in South Africa, the same paper that also employedWinston Churchill, with the 3rd Division South African Field Force.
Cameron was a noted historian, novelist and verse-writer, and made numerous contributions to thePall Mall Gazette, and many other publications of the period. He worked as a special war correspondent ofThe Times andThe Morning Post. He was editor ofArmorial Cornwall, founder and Hon. Sec. Celtic-Cornish Society, and leader of the Cornish Language Movement. He was also an expert in the works of occultistAleister Crowley. Cameron lived at Crowley's Scottish residenceBoleskine House for several years from 1903.
During the 1890s, Cameron flirted with theNeo-Jacobite Revival.[3] He wrote a piece on the movement forThe Albemarle, which was critical of the more politicalLegitimist Jacobite League of Great Britain and Ireland, but favourable towards the more artisticOrder of White Rose.[4]
In 1901, he founded the Cornish Celtic Society (Cornish:Cowethas Kelto-Kernuak), and at thePan Celtic Congress of 1901 made a spirited plea for recognition of Cornwall as aCeltic nation.[5]
He was aflamboyant individual who appeared at the 1902BangorEisteddfod as the Cornish delegate sporting a traditional Cornish costume of his own design. He was made a bard by the WelshGorsedd in 1904 and took thebardic name ofBardd Glas (the Blue Bard) because he was clad from his tights to his cap in this colour. Also involved with Cowethas Kelto Kernuak wasHenry Jenner who later retired to Cornwall following a distinguished career as librarian at theBritish Museum. Together with Jenner, he was jointly responsible for Cornwall gaining its acceptance as a Celtic nation by the PanCeltic Congress of 1904. Later Jenner helped found theCornish Gorseth.
The Cowethas Kelto Kernuak organisation petered out, when in 1903, Cameron left Cornwall to live at Boleskine nearLoch Ness and the colourful and enigmatic Bardd Glas progressively turned his attention away from Cornish Celtic culture to Welsh.
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