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The title Earl of Loudoun (pronounced "Looden") was created in the Peerage of Scotland
Peerage of Scotland

The Peerage of Scotland is the division of the United Kingdom Peerage for those peers created in the Kingdom of Scotland before 1707. With that year's Act of Union 1707, the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England were combined into the Kingdom of Great Britain, and a new Peerage of Great Britain was introduced in which subsequent ti...
 in 1633 for the 2nd Lord Campbell of Loudoun
John Campbell, 1st Earl of Loudoun

John Campbell, 1st Earl of Loudoun was a Scotland politician. He was the eldest son of James Campbell of Lawers and was created first Earl of Loudon 1637....
, along with the subsidiary title Lord Tarrinzean and Mauchline.

The 6th Countess married the 2nd Earl of Moira
Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings

Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings, was a British politician and military officer who served as Governor-General of India from 1813 to 1823....
, who was later created Marquess of Hastings
Marquess of Hastings

The title Marquess of Hastings was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1817 for Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings, the 2nd Earl of Moira....
. The next three Earls also held that Marquessate. However, with the death of the 4th Marquess, the Marquessate became extinct, but the Earldom passed to the elder daughter of the 2nd Marquess
George Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Marquess of Hastings

George Augustus Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Marquess of Hastings was a British Peerage, known as Lord Rawdon from birth until 1817 and Earl of Rawdon from 1817 to 1826....
.

The Heir Apparent
Heir apparent

An heir apparent is an heir who cannot be displaced from inheriting; the term is used in contrast to heir presumptive, the term for a conditional heir who is currently in line to inherit but could be displaced at any time in the future....
 to the Earldom uses the courtesy title
Courtesy title

A courtesy title is a form of address in systems of nobility used by children, former wives and other close relatives of a peerage . These style are used 'by courtesy' in the sense that the users do not themselves hold substantive titles....
 Lord Mauchline.



Heir Apparent: Simon Michael Abney-Hastings, Lord Mauchline (b.






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The title Earl of Loudoun (pronounced "Looden") was created in the Peerage of Scotland
Peerage of Scotland

The Peerage of Scotland is the division of the United Kingdom Peerage for those peers created in the Kingdom of Scotland before 1707. With that year's Act of Union 1707, the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England were combined into the Kingdom of Great Britain, and a new Peerage of Great Britain was introduced in which subsequent ti...
 in 1633 for the 2nd Lord Campbell of Loudoun
John Campbell, 1st Earl of Loudoun

John Campbell, 1st Earl of Loudoun was a Scotland politician. He was the eldest son of James Campbell of Lawers and was created first Earl of Loudon 1637....
, along with the subsidiary title Lord Tarrinzean and Mauchline.

The 6th Countess married the 2nd Earl of Moira
Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings

Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings, was a British politician and military officer who served as Governor-General of India from 1813 to 1823....
, who was later created Marquess of Hastings
Marquess of Hastings

The title Marquess of Hastings was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1817 for Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings, the 2nd Earl of Moira....
. The next three Earls also held that Marquessate. However, with the death of the 4th Marquess, the Marquessate became extinct, but the Earldom passed to the elder daughter of the 2nd Marquess
George Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Marquess of Hastings

George Augustus Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Marquess of Hastings was a British Peerage, known as Lord Rawdon from birth until 1817 and Earl of Rawdon from 1817 to 1826....
.

The Heir Apparent
Heir apparent

An heir apparent is an heir who cannot be displaced from inheriting; the term is used in contrast to heir presumptive, the term for a conditional heir who is currently in line to inherit but could be displaced at any time in the future....
 to the Earldom uses the courtesy title
Courtesy title

A courtesy title is a form of address in systems of nobility used by children, former wives and other close relatives of a peerage . These style are used 'by courtesy' in the sense that the users do not themselves hold substantive titles....
 Lord Mauchline.

Lords Campbell of Loudoun (1601)

  • Hugh Campbell, 1st Lord Campbell of Loudoun (d. 1622) (resigned in favour of his grandson-in-law c. 1619)
  • John Campbell, 1st Earl of Loudoun
    John Campbell, 1st Earl of Loudoun

    John Campbell, 1st Earl of Loudoun was a Scotland politician. He was the eldest son of James Campbell of Lawers and was created first Earl of Loudon 1637....
     (1598-1662) (created Earl of Loudoun in 1633)


Earls of Loudoun (1633)

  • John Campbell, 1st Earl of Loudoun
    John Campbell, 1st Earl of Loudoun

    John Campbell, 1st Earl of Loudoun was a Scotland politician. He was the eldest son of James Campbell of Lawers and was created first Earl of Loudon 1637....
     (1598-1662)
  • James Campbell, 2nd Earl of Loudoun (d. 1684)
  • Hugh Campbell, 3rd Earl of Loudoun (d. 1731)
  • John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun
    John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun

    John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun was a Scotland nobleman and military leader.Campbell inherited the peerage on the death of his father in 1731, becoming Lord Loudoun....
     (1705-1782)
  • James Mure-Campbell, 5th Earl of Loudoun
    James Mure-Campbell, 5th Earl of Loudoun

    James Mure-Campbell, 5th Earl of Loudoun was a Scottish aristocrat and soldier. He assumed the name of Mure on succeeding to the estate of his grandmother, the Countess of Glasgow, heiress of the family of Mure of Rowallan....
     (1726-1786)
  • Flora Mure-Campbell, 6th Countess of Loudoun (1780-1840)
  • George Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Marquess of Hastings, 7th Earl of Loudoun
    George Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Marquess of Hastings

    George Augustus Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Marquess of Hastings was a British Peerage, known as Lord Rawdon from birth until 1817 and Earl of Rawdon from 1817 to 1826....
     (1808-1844)
  • Paulyn Rawdon-Hastings, 3rd Marquess of Hastings, 8th Earl of Loudoun (1832-1851)
  • Henry Rawdon-Hastings, 4th Marquess of Hastings, 9th Earl of Loudoun (1842-1868)
  • Edith Rawdon-Hastings, 10th Countess of Loudoun (1833-1874)
  • Charles Edward Rawdon-Hastings, 11th Earl of Loudoun (1855-1920)
  • Edith Abney-Hastings, 12th Countess of Loudoun
    Edith Abney-Hastings, 12th Countess of Loudoun

    Edith Maud Abney-Hastings, 12th Countess of Loudoun was a British peerage....
     (1883-1960)
  • Barbara Huddleston Abney-Hastings, 13th Countess of Loudoun
    Barbara Abney-Hastings, 13th Countess of Loudoun

    Barbara Huddleston Abney-Hastings, 13th Countess of Loudoun She was the oldest daughter of Reginald Mowbray Chichester Huddleston and Edith Maud Rawdon-Hastings, Countess Of Loudoun, great great great granddaughter of Francis Rawdon-Hastings....
     (1919-2002)
  • Michael Edward Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun
    Michael Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun

    Michael Edward Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun is a Anglo-Celtic Australian, who is most noted due to the documentary Britain's Real Monarch, which proposed him as a pretender to the Kingdom of England, had it still existed as a separate kingdom....
     (b. 1942)


Heir Apparent: Simon Michael Abney-Hastings, Lord Mauchline (b. 1974)