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 Lawers is a village situated in rural Perthshire, Scotland. It lies on the banks of Loch Tay and at the foot of Ben Lawers Ben Lawers ( gd, Beinn Labhair) is the highest mountain in the Breadalbane region of the Scottish Highlands. It lies ...

, Perthshire and Lady Jean Boyle. He assumed the name of Mure in 1729 on succeeding to the Rowallan estate near

Kilmaurs Kilmaurs () is a village in East Ayrshire, Scotland which lies just outside of the largest settlement in East Ayrshire, Kilmarnock. It lies on the Carmel Water, southwest of Glasgow. Population recorded for the village in the 2001 Census recorde ...

, Ayrshire of his grandmother Jean Mure, the Countess of Glasgow, heiress of the family of Mure of Rowallan. He inherited the

estate near Perth in 1745 on the death of his father at the Battle of Fontenoy and succeeded his cousin to the title of 5th Earl of Loudoun in 1782. He served in the

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, reaching the rank of

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by 1781 and represented Ayrshire in

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from 1754 to 1761. He married Flora Macleod, daughter of John Macleod of

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; their only child Flora Mure-Campbell succeeded to the title as 6th Countess of Loudoun.

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Burke's Peerage – The Campbells of Loudoun
1726 births 1786 deaths Earls of Loudoun British Army major generals Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Scottish constituencies British MPs 1754–1761 {{Scotland-earl-stub

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