Barbara Abney-Hastings, 13th Countess of Loudoun

Who was Barbara Abney-Hastings, 13th Countess of Loudoun?

Barbara Huddleston Abney-Hastings, 13th Countess of Loudoun, was a Scottish countess in her own right, and a member of the House of Lords.

Loudoun was the oldest daughter of Reginald Mowbray Chichester Huddleston and Edith Abney-Hastings, 12th Countess of Loudoun.

Her only brother, Ian Huddleston Abney-Hastings, styled Lord Mauchline, was killed in Italy in World War II, so as the oldest sister Barbara succeeded in the earldom in 1960.

She lived in Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire, England.

Lady Loudon was a member of the House of Lords until 1999 when the right of hereditary peers to sit in the Lords was abolished. She sat as a cross-bencher, and was concerned with social justice.