Earl Cawdor
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Earl Cawdor, of Castlemartin in the County of Pembroke, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1827 for John Campbell, 2nd Baron Cawdor, along with the courtesy title Viscount Emlyn, of Emlyn in the County of Carmarthen. Campbell had previously represented Carmarthenshire in the House of Commons. The title Baron Cawdor, of Castlemartin in the County of Pembroke, was created in 1796 in the Peerage of Great Britain for the first Earl's father John Campbell, who had earlier represented Nairnshire and Cardigan in Parliament. They were both descendants of Sir John Campbell, third son of Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll (from whom the Dukes of Argyll also descend). The present Earl Cawdor is also the 25th Thane of Cawdor.
The ancestral seat of this branch of the Campbell family is Cawdor Castle in Nairn.
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[edit] Barons Cawdor (1796)
- John Campbell, 1st Baron Cawdor (1753-1821)
- John Frederick Campbell, 2nd Baron Cawdor (1790-1860) (created Earl Cawdor in 1827)
[edit] Earls Cawdor (1827)
- John Frederick Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor (1790-1860)
- John Frederick Vaughan Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor (1817-1898)
- Frederick Archibald Vaughan Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor (1847-1911)
- Hugh Frederick Vaughan Campbell, 4th Earl Cawdor (1870-1914)
- John Duncan Vaughan Campbell, 5th Earl Cawdor (1900-1970)
- Hugh John Vaughan Campbell, 6th Earl Cawdor (1932-1993)
- Colin Robert Vaughan Campbell, 7th Earl Cawdor (b. 1962)
The heir apparent is son James Chester Campbell, Viscount Emlyn (b. 1998)
