John Frederick Vaughan Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor (11 June 1817 – 29 March 1898), was a British politician.
Campbell was the son of
John Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor
John Frederick Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor (8 November 1790 – 7 November 1860) was a British peer and MP.
He was born the son of John Campbell, 1st Baron Cawdor and Lady Caroline Howard and educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, graduat ...
, and Lady Elizabeth Thynne, daughter of
2nd Marquess of Bath. He was known as Viscount Emlyn until the death of his father in 1860.
As Viscount Emlyn, he served as Lord-in-waiting to
Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester, at the 1838
coronation of Queen Victoria
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.
He married Sarah Mary Compton Cavendish, daughter of
General Hon. Henry Frederick Compton-Cavendish and Sarah Fawkener, on 28 June 1842. They had seven children:
*Lady Victoria Alexandrina Elizabeth Campbell (24 Mar 1843 – 30 Mar 1909), who married Lt.-Col. Francis William Lambton, grandson of
George Bussy Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey and of
Cuthbert Ellison, MP for Newcastle. They had one son, Cuthbert.
*Lady Muriel Sarah Campbell (27 May 1845 – 30 Sep 1934), Sir Courtenay Boyle, grandson of
Edmund Boyle, 7th Earl of Cork
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Family
A younger son of the John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork, 5th Earl of Cork and Margaret Hamilton, he succe ...
. They had no known issue.
*
Frederick Archibald Vaughan Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor (13 Feb 1847 – 08 Feb 1911)
*Capt. Hon. Ronald George Elidor Campbell (30 Dec 1848 – 28 Mar 1879); he married Katharine Susanna Claughton, daughter of Rev.
Thomas Legh Claughton
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,
Bishop of St Albans
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. They had four children, including
Brig.-Gen. John Vaughan Campbell, and Rev. Guy Ronald, later husband of the Hon. Vere Annesley, daughter of
Arthur Annesley, 11th Viscount Valentia
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Background and education ...
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*Lady Evelyn Caroline Louise Campbell (24 Jul 1851 – Oct 1909); unmarried.
*Lady Rachel Anne Georgina Campbell (04 Jul 1853 – 06 Oct 1906); she married, as his first wife,
Sir Edward Stafford Howard MP. They had three children.
*Hon. Alexander Francis Henry Campbell (3 Sep 1855 – 5 Mar 1929), married Constance Pleydell-Bouverie, great-granddaughter of
Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor
Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor FRS FSA (4 March 1750 – 27 January 1828), styled Hon. Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie from 1761 to 1765 and Viscount Folkestone from 1765 to 1776, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons f ...
and
Sir William à Court, 1st Baronet
Sir William Pierce Ashe à Court, 1st Baronet ( – 22 July 1817) was a British soldier and Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP).
À Court was the son of General William Ashe-à Court and Anne Vernon. He represented ...
.
Political career
Cawdor, as Lord Emlyn, served as MP for Pembrokeshire from 1841 until 1860.
In later life he participated in local politics and was elected unopposed for Castlemartin at the first elections to Pembrokeshire County Council in
1889
Events January
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** The total solar eclipse of January 1, 1889 is seen over parts of California and Nevada.
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References
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1817 births
1898 deaths
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Earls in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
Lord-lieutenants of Carmarthenshire
Members of the Cambrian Archaeological Association
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