Colin Campbell, 7th Earl Cawdor

• Honorific Prefix — The Right Honourable • Name — The Earl Cawdor • Honorific Suffix — DL • Office — Vice-Lord Lieutenant of Nairnshire • Office1 — Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal • Term Start1 — 1993 • Term End1 — 1999 • Predecessor1 — The 6th Earl Cawdor • Successor1 — seat abolished • Born — 30 June 1962 • Birthplace — Carmarthen, Wales • Education — Eton College St Peter's College, Oxford • Occupation — architect, politician, landowner • Relatives — Clan Campbell of Cawdor • Children — * Lady Jean Campbell • James Chester Campbell, Viscount Emlyn • Lady Eleanor Campbell • Lady Beatrice Campbell • Father — Hugh John Vaughan Campbell, 6th Earl Cawdor • Mother — Cathryn Hinde

Born in Carmarthen, 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 Eton College and St Peter's College, Oxford. On his father's death in 1993, he succeeded him as Earl Cawdor of Castlemartin, Viscount Emlyn, of Emlyn, and Baron Cawdor of Castlemartin. He also inherited a Scottish estate of some 50,000 acres and Cawdor Castle, which is one of the locations of the Shakespeare play Macbeth. In 2006, he launched a project called "New Future for Nairn", recalling that the town of Nairn 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.[2]

On 21 October 1994, at Adare, County Limerick, Lord Cawdor married Lady Isabella Stanhope, youngest daughter of William Stanhope, 11th Earl of Harrington.[3] She was a Vogue fashion editor who has since become an interior decorator.[4] They have four children: • Lady Jean Campbell (born 1997)[5] • James Chester Campbell, Viscount Emlyn (born 1998)[6] • 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.[7] In 2007, as "Earl Colin & Countess Isabella of Cawdor", Vogue listed the Cawdors among its best-dressed couples.[8] On 23 June 2013, The New York Times quoted Lord Cawdor's elder sister Lady Liza Campbell in an article which described male-preference primogeniture as a legacy form of sexism.[10]

The authorities additionally record the headings Colin Robert Vaughan Campbell, 7th Earl Cawdor of Castlemartin, Colin Robert Vaughan Campbell, 7th Earl Cawdor, Colin Campbell, 7th Earl Cawdor of Castlemartin and Colin Robert Vaughan Campbell. His recorded languages were English and British English. He was the child of Hugh Campbell, 6th Earl Cawdor and Cathryn Hinde. He married Isabella Campbell, Countess Cawdor. 4 children are recorded: Jean Campbell, James Campbell, Viscount Emlyn, Lady Eleanor Campbell and Lady Beatrice Campbell.