Lords Campbell of Loudoun (1601)

1^st Lord Campbell, Hugh Campbell, b.?, a.1601, d.1622

Hugh Campbell was the son of Sir Matthew Campbell of Loudoun, Sheriff of Ayr and a prominent member of the extensive family of the Campbells of Lochaw, and Isobel Drummond.

2^nd Lord Campbell, John Campbell, b.1598, a.1619, d.1663

Grandson-in-law of the 1^st Lord, having married Margaret Campbell, Baroness Loudoun (b.c.1605, d.a.1663), grand-daughter of the 1^st Lord and Margaret Gordon (b.?, d.1607), and daughter of George Campbell, Master of Loudoun, and Jean Fleming (b.?, d.1612), daughter of John Fleming, 1^st Earl of Wigton. He was the son of Sir James Campbell of Lawers (b.?, d.1645) and Jean Colville, daughter of James Colville, 1^st Lord Culross. He was ceded the lordship by his grandfather-in-law in 1619, and was created 1^st Earl of Loudoun and 1^st Lord Tarrinzean and Mauchline in 1633. He was a leading opponent of King Charles I’s attempt to impose a new Prayer Book in Scotland. However, when the King softened his stance, he made Campbell Lord Chancellor in 1641, and he held this office until the Restoration. Although a Presbyterian, he aligned himself with Charles II, and joined the Royalists in 1653, losing his estates to Cromwell. He was also First Commissioner of the Treasury and President of the Privy Council from 1649 to 1660, and he was Chancellor of St Andrews University from 1643 until his death.

Earls of Loudoun (1633)

1^st Earl of Loudoun, John Campbell, as above

2^nd Earl of Loudoun, James Campbell, b.?, a.1663, d.1684

Son of the 1^st Earl and Margaret Campbell, Baroness Loudoun as mentioned above.

3^rd Earl of Loudoun, Hugh Campbell, b.?, a.1684, d.1731

Son of the 2^nd Earl and Lady Margaret Montgomerie, daughter of Hugh Montgomerie, 7^th Earl of Eglinton.

4^th Earl of Loudoun, John Campbell, b.1705, a.1731, d.1782

Son of the 3^rd Earl and Margaret Dalrymple (b.c.1677, d.1777), daughter of John Dalrymple, 1^st Earl of Stair. During the Jacobite Rebellion, he raised a regiment to support the Hanoverian side. During 1746, he was stationed at Inverness, and ventured forth in search of the Pretender but was ignominiously routed by a handful of Jacobites under the instructions of Lady Anne Farquharson-Mackintosh, wife of the Chief of Clan Farquharson, near Moy Hall, where the Lady was hostess to the Prince. He then joined Cumberland, ceding Inverness to the rebels. In 1756, he was sent to North America as Commander-in-Chief, but was replaced after further tactical mistakes. He died unmarried.

5^th Earl of Loudoun, James Mure-Campbell, b.1726, a.1782, d.1786

Cousin of the 4^th Earl, being the son of the 3^rd Earl’s younger brother Sir James Campbell (b.?, d.1745) and Lady Jane Boyle (b.?, d.1729), daughter of David Boyle, 1^st Earl of Glasgow.

6^th Earl (Countess) of Loudoun, Flora Mure-Campbell, b.1780, a.1786, d.1840

Daughter of the 5^th Earl and Lady Flora Macleod (b.?, d.1780). She married Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1^st Marquess of Hastings, 2^nd Earl of Moira and 17^th Lord Botreaux.

7^th Earl of Loudoun, George Augustus Francis Rawdon-Hastings, b.1808, a.1840, d.1844

Son of the 6^th Countess and the 1^st Marquess of Hastings. He and the next two holders of the earldom were all Marquesses of Hastings. He succeeded his father in 1826, and was Lord of the Bedchamber to King William IV from 1830 to 1831.

8^th Earl of Loudoun, Paulyn Reginald Serlo Rawdon-Hastings, b.1832, a.1840, d.1851

Son of the 7^th Earl and Barbara Yelverton, Baroness Grey (b.1810, d.1858).

9^th Earl of Loudoun, Henry Weysford Charles Plantagenet Rawdon-Hastings, b.1842, a.1851, d.1868

Younger brother of the 8^th Earl. When he died with no children, his English baronies (of Grey and of Botreaux) fell into abeyance as he had more than one sister. By Scottish laws of inheritance, his older sister succeeded to the earldom.

10^th Earl (Countess) of Loudoun, Edith Maud Rawdon-Hastings, b.1833, a.1868, d.1874

Older sister of the 9^th Earl. In 1871, she also obtained the title of 21^st Baroness Botreaux in her own right, the barony of Grey eventually being bestowed on her younger sister Bertha. The Countess of Loudoun spent substantial effort in repairing the ancient family seat of Rowallan Castle in Ayrshire.

11^th Earl of Loudoun, Charles Edward Rawdon-Hastings, b.1855, a.1874, d.1920

Son of the 10^th Countess and Charles Frederick Abney-Hastings (born Clifton), 1^st Baron Donnington (b.1822, d.1895).

12^th Earl (Countess) of Loudoun, Edith Maud Rawdon-Hastings, b.1883, a.1920, d.1960

By the rules of the English barony, when the 11^th Earl died without children, this title of Baron Donnington transferred to his next surviving brother Gilbert Theophilus Clifton-Hastings-Campbell (b.1859, d.1927), who had four daughters and no son. The barony then became extinct as there was no single female eligible to inherit. However, the earldom of Loudoun passed to the heir-male, who was the daughter of Major Paulyn Francis Cuthbert Rawdon-Hastings (b.1856, d.1907), the 11^th Earl’s older brother who had died before his father. The Countess and her sister petitioned for the extinct baronies in 1920, and these were granted between them in 1921, with the Countess receiving the baronies of Botreaux, Stanley and Hastings of Hastings. Later that year, they also petitioned for the earldoms of Warwick and Salisbury as descendants of Edward Plantagenet, 17^th Earl of Warwick and Margaret Pole, 8^th Countess of Salisbury. However, they were counter-petitioned by the holders of these titles and failed.

13^th Earl (Countess) of Loudoun, Barbara Huddleston Abney-Hastings, b.1919, a.1960, d.2002

Daughter of the 12^th Countess and Reginald Mowbray Chichester Huddleston.

14^th Earl of Loudoun, Michael Abney-Hastings, b.1942, a.2002

Son of the 13^th Countess and Captain Walter Strickland Lord, her older brother having been killed on active service in Italy during the Second World War. He emigrated to Australia when he was 18 years old. He is well known as being an advocate of his own claim to the Throne of England as the heir to the House of York, based on the supposed illegitimacy of Edward IV, and his own descent from George Plantagenet, 1^st Duke of Clarence, the younger brother of Kings Edward IV and Richard III.

The courtesy title for the heir is Lord Mauchline.

(Last updated: 15/07/2009)