Flora Mure-Campbell, Marchioness of Hastings and 6th Countess of Loudoun (1780 – 8 January 1840) was a

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, the second daughter of

James Mure-Campbell, 5th Earl of Loudoun James Mure-Campbell, 5th Earl of Loudoun (11 February 1726 – 28 April 1786) was a Scottish aristocrat, soldier and MP. He was born the only son of Hon. Sir James Campbell, M.P. of Lawers, Perthshire and Lady Jean Boyle. He assumed the name of ...

and Lady Flora Macleod. She married

Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Earl of Moira Francis Edward Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings, (9 December 175428 November 1826), styled The Honourable Francis Rawdon from birth until 1762, Lord Rawdon between 1762 and 1783, The Lord Rawdon from 1783 to 1793 and The Earl of Moira b ...

, later the

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and

Marquess of Hastings Marquess of Hastings was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 6 December 1816 for Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Earl of Moira. History The Rawdon family descended from Francis Rawdon (d. 1668), of Rawdon, Yorkshire. H ...

, on 12 July 1804 and with him had six children: * Lady Flora Elizabeth (1806–1839), died unmarried. *Hon. Francis George Augustus (1807–1807), died in infancy. * George Augustus Francis, styled Lord Rawdon, later Earl of Rawdon, later 2nd Marquess of Hastings (1808–1844) * Lady Sophia Frederica Christina (1809–1859), married

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and had issue. *Lady Selina Constance (1810–1867), married Charles Henry, of

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. *Lady Adelaide Augusta Lavinia (1812–1860), married Sir William Keith Murray. Around 1807 she commissioned the building of

Loudoun Castle Loudoun Castle is a ruined 19th-century country house near Galston, in the Loudoun area of Ayrshire, Scotland. The ruins are protected as a category A listed building. History Loudoun Castle is the former home of the Mure-Campbell family. U ...

in Ayrshire, to designs by

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. Her husband died on 28 November 1826 aboard off

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, and, following his directions, his right hand was cut off to be buried with his wife when she died. This wish was complied with, and it now rests clasped with hers in the family vault at

Loudoun Kirk Loudoun ( gd, Lughdan) is a parish in East Ayrshire, Scotland and lies between five and ten miles east of Kilmarnock. The parish roughly encompasses the northern half of the Upper-Irvine Valley and borders Galston Parish (which encompasses th ...

.Beevor, Page 59

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