Colin Campbell, 7th Earl Cawdor
The Right Honourable The Earl Cawdor DL | |
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Vice-Lord Lieutenant of Nairnshire | |
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
In office 1993–1999 | |
Preceded by | The 6th Earl Cawdor |
Succeeded by | seat abolished |
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Born | 30 June 1962 Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales |
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Relatives | Clan Campbell of Cawdor |
Education | Eton College St Peter's College, Oxford |
Occupation | architect, politician, landowner |
Colin Robert Vaughan Campbell, 7th Earl Cawdor, DL (born 30 June 1962) is a Scottish peer, landowner, and architect. A member of the House of Lords from 1993 to 1999, he is Vice-Lord Lieutenant of Nairnshire.
Life
Born in Carmarthen,[1] Cawdor is the elder son of Hugh John Vaughan Campbell, 6th Earl Cawdor, and his first wife Cathryn Hinde, a daughter of Major-General Sir Robert Hinde, and was educated at Eton College and St Peter's College, Oxford.[2] On his father's death in 1993, he succeeded him as Earl Cawdor of Castlemartin, Viscount Emlyn, of Emlyn, and Baron Cawdor of Castlemartin.[2] He also inherited a Scottish estate of some 50,000 acres and Cawdor Castle,[3] which is one of the locations of the Shakespeare play Macbeth.[4]
In 2006, he launched a project called "New Future for Nairn", recalling that the town of Nairn had once been popular for seaside holidays and known as "the Brighton of the North". In 2007 came more detailed plans to develop 274 acres of land at Delnies, on the outskirts of the town, for new housing, a sports centre, and an arts centre.[4]
Personal life
On 21 October 1994, at Adare, County Limerick, Lord Cawdor married Lady Isabella Stanhope, youngest daughter of William Stanhope, 11th Earl of Harrington.[2] She was a Vogue fashion editor who has since become an interior decorator.[5] They have four children:[2]
- Lady Jean Campbell (born 1997)[6]
- James Chester Campbell, Viscount Emlyn (born 1998)[7]
- Lady Eleanor Campbell (born 2000)[7]
- Lady Beatrice Campbell (born 2004)[8]
In 2001, Lord Cawdor clashed with his stepmother, Angelika Campbell, Countess Cawdor, when she tried to have him evicted from the castle, so that she could continue to occupy it.[4] In 2005, he and his wife and children were living at Drynachan Lodge, an eight-bedroom hunting lodge by the River Findhorn.[8]
In 2007, as "Earl Colin & Countess Isabella of Cawdor", Vogue listed the Cawdors among its best-dressed couples.[9][10]
On 23 June 2013, The New York Times quoted Lord Cawdor's elder sister Lady Liza Campbell in an article which described male-preference primogeniture as a legacy form of sexism.[3]
References
- ^ Liza Campbell. " I'm not just a chromosomal faux pas", The Daily Telegraph, 19 January 2004, accessed 13 August 2007
- ^ a b c d Burke's Peerage, volume 1, 2003, page 729
- ^ a b Sarah Lyall (2013-06-22). "Son and Heir? In Britain, Daughters Cry No Fair". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-06-23.
- ^ a b c "Cawdors unite to regenerate town". 2007-03-09. Retrieved 2021-03-19.
- ^ "Cawdor Estate - Scottish Highland accommodation and outdoor activities". Archived from the original on 2007-07-04. Retrieved 2007-08-13.
- ^ Rhiannon Batten, "From city lights to country life", The Independent, 31 January 2004, accessed 13 August 2007: "But after having three children in quick succession – Jean, now six, James, five, and Eleanor, almost four ..."
- ^ a b Nicola Jeal, "The woman who put the Highlands in Vogue" The Observer, 13 April 2003, accessed 13 August 2007.
- ^ a b Janet Christie, "Shooting from the hip", The Scotsman, 8 January 2005, accessed 13 August 2007: "Lord and Lady Cawdor, 42 and 38, and their four children, Jean, seven, James, six, Eleanor, four, and Beatrice, four months..."
- ^ International best dressed list 2007", 22 August 2007
- ^ Hollywood Today, 28 September 2007
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl Cawdor
- " Out, out, damn GMOs" article in The Daily Telegraph published 21 July 2001.
- Liza Campbell." I'm not just a chromosomal faux pas", The Daily Telegraph, 19 January 2004
- Martin Hodgson and Stephen Khan, "This Britain", The Independent, 4 June 2006
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Preceded by | Earl Cawdor 1993–present | Incumbent |
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