Colin Robert Vaughan Campbell, 7th Earl Cawdor, DL (born 30 June 1962), styled Viscount Emlyn from 1970–93, is a Scottish peer, landowner, and architect. A member of the

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from 1993–99, he is Vice-Lord Lieutenant of

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Life

Born in

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, Cawdor is the elder son of Hugh John Vaughan Campbell, 6th Earl Cawdor, and his first wife Cathryn Hinde, a daughter of Major-General Sir Robert Hinde, and was educated at

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and

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. On his father's death in 1993, he succeeded him as

Earl Cawdor 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 the politician John Campbell, 2nd Baron Cawdor. This Welsh branch of Clan Campbell of Cawdor descends from Si ...

of Castlemartin, Viscount Emlyn, of

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, and Baron Cawdor of Castlemartin. He also inherited a Scottish estate of some 50,000 acres and

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, which is one of the locations of the Shakespeare play ''

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''. In 2006, he launched a project called "New Future for Nairn", recalling that the town of

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had once been popular for seaside holidays and known as "the Brighton of the North". In 2007, came more detailed plans to develop 274 acres of land at Delnies, on the outskirts of the town, for new housing, a sports centre, and an arts centre.

Personal life

On 21 October 1994, at

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, Lord Cawdor married Lady Isabella Stanhope, youngest daughter of

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.''

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'', volume 1, 2003, page 729 She was a ''

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'' fashion editor who has since become an interior decorator. They have four children: * Lady Jean Campbell (born 1997) *James Chester Campbell, Viscount Emlyn (born 1998)Nicola Jeal
"The woman who put the Highlands in Vogue"
''

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'', 13 April 2003, accessed 13 August 2007. *Lady Eleanor Campbell (born 2000) *Lady Beatrice Campbell (born 2004) In 2001, Lord Cawdor clashed with his stepmother, Angelika Campbell, Countess Cawdor, when she tried to have him evicted from the castle, so that she could continue to occupy it. In 2005, he and his wife and children were living at Drynachan Lodge, an eight-bedroom hunting lodge by the River Findhorn.Janet Christie
"Shooting from the hip"
''

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'', 8 January 2005, accessed 13 August 2007: "Lord and Lady Cawdor, 42 and 38, and their four children, Jean, seven, James, six, Eleanor, four, and Beatrice, four months..." In 2007, as "Earl Colin & Countess Isabella of Cawdor", ''Vogue'' listed the Cawdors among its best-dressed couples.''

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'', 28 September 2007 On 23 June 2013, ''

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'' quoted Lord Cawdor's elder sister Lady Liza Campbell in an article which described male-preference

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as a legacy form of sexism.

References

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" Out, out, damn GMOs"
article in ''The Daily Telegraph'' published 21 July 2001. * Liza Campbel
" I'm not just a chromosomal faux pas"
''The Daily Telegraph'', 19 January 2004 * Martin Hodgson and Stephen Khan
"This Britain"
''The Independent'', 4 June 2006 {{DEFAULTSORT:Cawdor, Colin Campbell, 7th Earl 1962 births Living people Nobility from Highland (council area) People educated at Eton College Alumni of St Peter's College, Oxford Deputy lieutenants Earls in the Peerage of the United Kingdom 20th-century Scottish architects 7 21st-century Scottish architects

Cawdor Cawdor () is a village and parish in the Highland council area, Scotland. The village is south-southwest of Nairn and east of Inverness. The village is in the Historic County of Nairnshire. History The village is the location of Cawdor ...