Earl Cawdor
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. It was created in 1827 for John Campbell, 2nd Baron Cawdor
John Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor
John Frederick Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor was a British earl and MP.He was born the son of John Campbell, 1st Baron Cawdor and Lady Caroline Howard and educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating BA in 1912...
. This branch of Clan Campbell
Clan Campbell
Clan Campbell is a Highland Scottish clan. Historically one of the largest, most powerful and most successful of the Highland clans, their lands were in Argyll and the chief of the clan became the Earl and later Duke of Argyll.-Origins:...
descends from Sir John Campbell (died 1546), third son of Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll
Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll
Gillespie Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll was a Scottish nobleman and politician.-Biography:Archibald was the eldest son of Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll and Isabel Stewart, daughter of John Stewart, 2nd Lord Lorn. He was made Master of the Royal Household of James IV of Scotland on 24...
(whose eldest son Colin
Colin Campbell, 3rd Earl of Argyll
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was the ancestor of the Dukes of Argyll
Duke of Argyll
Duke of Argyll is a title, created in the Peerage of Scotland in 1701 and in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1892. The Earls, Marquesses, and Dukes of Argyll were for several centuries among the most powerful, if not the most powerful, noble family in Scotland...
; see the latter title for earlier history of the family). His great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson Pryse Campbell represented Nairnshire in the House of Commons
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. His son John Campbell
John Campbell, 1st Baron Cawdor
John Campbell of Cawdor, 1st Baron Cawdor of Castlemartin was the son of Pryse Campbell and Sarah Bacon.He married Lady Isabella Caroline Howard, daughter of Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle and Lady Margaret Caroline Leveson-Gower, on 28 July 1789...
was Member of Parliament
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for Nairnshire and Cardigan
Cardigan (UK Parliament constituency)
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. In 1796 he was raised to the Peerage of Great Britain
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as Baron Cawdor, of Castlemartin in the County of Pembroke.
He was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Baron. He represented Carmarthenshire
Carmarthenshire (UK Parliament constituency)
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in Parliament and served as Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire
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. In 1827 he was created Viscount Emlyn, of Emlyn in the County of Carmarthen, and Earl Cawdor, of Castlemartin in the County of Pembroke. These titles were in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
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. His son, the second Earl, was Member of Parliament for Pembrokeshire
Pembrokeshire (UK Parliament constituency)
Pembrokeshire was a parliamentary constituency based on the county of Pembrokeshire in Wales. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.- History :...
and Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire. He was succeeded by his eldest son, the third Earl. He was a Conservative
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politician and served briefly as First Lord of the Admiralty in 1905. Lord Cawdor was also Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire
Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire
This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire. After 1715, all Lord Lieutenants were also Custos Rotulorum of Pembrokeshire. The county corporate of Haverfordwest was included in this lieutenancy, except for the period from 1761 to 1931, when there was a separate Lord...
and Chairman of the Great Western Railway
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. the titles are held by his great-great-grandson, the seventh Earl, who succeeded his father in 1993. He is also the 25th Thane
Thegn
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of Cawdor. As a descendant of the second Earl of Argyll Lord Cawdor is also in remainder to this peerage and its subsidiary titles, which are held by his kinsman the Duke of Argyll.
Several other members of this branch of the Campbell family may be mentioned. Sir George Campbell, younger brother of the first Baron, was an Admiral
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in the Royal Navy
Royal Navy
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. The Hon. George Pryse Campbell, second son of the first Baron, was a Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy. Brigadier-General John Vaughan Campbell
John Vaughan Campbell
Brigadier-General John Vaughan Campbell VC CMG DSO was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.Campbell was 39 years old, and a temporary lieutenant-colonel in...
, who was awarded the Victoria Cross
Victoria Cross
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in 1916, was the second son of Captain the Hon. Ronald George Elidor Campbell, second son of the second Earl. Colonel the Hon. Ian Malcoln Campbell, third son of the third Earl, was Lord Lieutenant of Nairnshire. Liza Campbell
Liza Campbell
Liza Campbell , is an artist, calligrapher, columnist and writer, born in the north of Scotland and currently living in London, England. She is the second daughter of Hugh Campbell, 6th Earl Cawdor by his first wife, the former Cathryn Hinde...
is the second daughter of the sixth Earl.
The ancestral seat of this branch of the Campbell family is Cawdor Castle
Cawdor Castle
Cawdor Castle is a tower house set amid gardens in the parish of Cawdor, approximately 10 miles east of Inverness and 5 miles southwest of Nairn in Scotland, United Kingdom. It belonged to the Clan Calder. It still serves as home to the Dowager Countess Cawdor, stepmother of Colin Robert Vaughan...
in Nairnshire.
Barons Cawdor (1796)
- John Campbell, 1st Baron CawdorJohn Campbell, 1st Baron CawdorJohn Campbell of Cawdor, 1st Baron Cawdor of Castlemartin was the son of Pryse Campbell and Sarah Bacon.He married Lady Isabella Caroline Howard, daughter of Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle and Lady Margaret Caroline Leveson-Gower, on 28 July 1789...
(1753–1821) - John Frederick Campbell, 2nd Baron CawdorJohn Campbell, 1st Earl CawdorJohn Frederick Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor was a British earl and MP.He was born the son of John Campbell, 1st Baron Cawdor and Lady Caroline Howard and educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating BA in 1912...
(1790–1860) (created Earl Cawdor in 1827)
Earls Cawdor (1827)
- John Frederick Campbell, 1st Earl CawdorJohn Campbell, 1st Earl CawdorJohn Frederick Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor was a British earl and MP.He was born the son of John Campbell, 1st Baron Cawdor and Lady Caroline Howard and educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating BA in 1912...
(1790–1860) - John Frederick Vaughan Campbell, 2nd Earl CawdorJohn Campbell, 2nd Earl CawdorJohn Frederick Vaughan Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor was the son of John Frederick Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor and Lady Elizabeth Thynne. He married Sarah Mary Compton-Cavendish, daughter of General Hon. Henry Frederick Compton-Cavendish and Sarah Fawkener, on 28 June 1842. There are six children of the...
(1817–1898) - Frederick Archibald Vaughan Campbell, 3rd Earl CawdorFrederick Campbell, 3rd Earl CawdorFrederick Archibald Vaughan Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor PC, DL, JP , styled Viscount Emlyn from 1860 to 1898, was a British Conservative politician...
(1847–1911) - Hugh Frederick Vaughan Campbell, 4th Earl Cawdor (1870–1914)
- John Duncan Vaughan Campbell, 5th Earl CawdorJohn Campbell, 5th Earl CawdorJohn Duncan Vaughan Campbell, 5th Earl Cawdor was born on 17 May 1900 and died in 1970. He was the son of Hugh Frederick Vaughan Campbell, 4th Earl Cawdor and Joan Emily Mary Thynne....
(1900–1970) - Hugh John Vaughan Campbell, 6th Earl Cawdor (1932–1993)
- Colin Robert Vaughan Campbell, 7th Earl CawdorColin Campbell, 7th Earl CawdorColin Robert Vaughan Campbell, 7th Earl Cawdor , is a Scottish earl in the Peerage of the United Kingdom and an architect by profession. He is also known for having legal issues with his stepmother Countess Cawdor. He is the elder son and third child of Hugh John Vaughan Campbell, 6th Earl Cawdor...
(b. 1962)
The heir apparent
Heir apparent
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is the present holder's son James Chester Campbell, Viscount Emlyn (b. 1998)