Colin Campbell, 7th Earl Cawdor

Who is Colin Campbell, 7th Earl Cawdor?

Colin Robert Vaughan Campbell, 7th Earl Cawdor, is a Scottish peer and architect. He is also known for having legal issues with his stepmother Countess Cawdor. He is the elder son and third child of Hugh John Vaughan Campbell, 6th Earl Cawdor and his first wife Cathryn Hinde. He married Lady Isabella Rachel Stanhope, youngest daughter of William Stanhope, 11th Earl of Harrington and his third wife Priscilla Margaret Cubitt, herself granddaughter of the 2nd Baron Ashcombe, on 21 October 1994.

Lady Cawdor is a former Vogue fashion editor and stylist who has now turned to interior decorating. Lord and Lady Cawdor have four children:

Lady Jean Campbell

James Chester Campbell, Viscount Emlyn

Lady Eleanor Campbell

Lady Beatrice Campbell

In 2007, Vogue considered the Earl and Countess Cawdor to be among the best-dressed couples.

On June 23, 2013, the New York Times quoted one of Campbell's elder sisters, Liza Campbell, in an article that described the law of primogeniture as a legacy instance of sexism, “The posh aspect of it blinds people to what is essentially sexism in a privileged minority, where girls are born less than boys.”