Hugh John Vaughan Campbell, 6th Earl Cawdor explained

Honorific Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Earl Cawdor
Office:Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Term Start:1970
Term End:1993
Predecessor:The 5th Earl Cawdor
Successor:The 7th Earl Cawdor
Birth Date:6 September 1932
Death Date:20 June 1993
Education:Eton College
Magdalen College
Royal Agricultural University
Occupation:landowner, politician
Relatives:Clan Campbell of Cawdor
Children:
Father:John Campbell, 5th Earl Cawdor
Mother:Wilma Mairi Vickers

Hugh John Vaughan Campbell, 6th Earl Cawdor (6 September 1932 – 20 June 1993), was a Scottish peer and landowner, a member of the House of Lords from 1970 until his death.

Biography

Campbell was the son of John Campbell, 5th Earl Cawdor, and Wilma Mairi Vickers. He studied at Eton College, Magdalen College, Oxford, and the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester.[1]

He held the office of High Sheriff of Carmarthenshire in 1964. Although Scottish, he lived at Golden Grove, Llandeilo, in Wales, until his father's death in 1970, when he inherited the family estates in Scotland,[2] some 50,000 acres.[1]

Marriages and children

Lord Cawdor was married firstly on 19 January 1956 to Cathryn Hinde, daughter of Major-General Sir Robert Hinde DSO KBE CB, and his wife Evelyn Muriel Wright. They had five children:[3]

Lord Cawdor and Cathryn Hinde were divorced in 1979 and he was married secondly to Countess Angelika Lazansky von Bukowa on 28 December 1979.[3] She is an advocate for organic gardening and farming.[4] There were no children of the second marriage.[3]

Lord Cawdor died on 20 June 1993.[3] He caused controversy by leaving Cawdor Castle to his second wife rather than his heir.[5] One of his daughters, Lady Elizabeth (Liza), published her memoir of him in 2006, called Title Deeds: a Work of Friction.

Notes and References

  1. News: Obituary: Earl Cawdor. Independent . London. Tam. Dalyell. 23 June 1993.
  2. Web site: The 6th Earl of Cawdor. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130730095700/http://www.llandeilo.org/cawdor-6.php. 2013-07-30.
  3. Burke's Peerage, volume 1, 2003, page 729
  4. Web site: Angelika Campbell, Countess Cawdor. National Portrait Gallery.
  5. News: Earl accused of deterring tourists at Cawdor Castle. Daily Telegraph . London. Tom. Peterkin. 10 June 2003.