Edith Rawdon-Hastings, 10th Countess of Loudoun

Her bookplate

Edith Maud Rawdon-Hastings, 10th Countess of Loudoun (10 December 1833 – 23 January 1874) was a Scottish peer, the daughter of George Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Marquess of Hastings and his wife Barbara née Yelverton. She was greatly attached to the old Mure family mansion of Rowallan Castle near Kilmaurs in Ayrshire. She expended considerable sums in repairing the ancient edifice and without her concern this remarkable building would no longer be with us.[1]

On 30 April 1853, she married Charles Clifton, who took the name Abney-Hasting, as a condition of inheriting from a second cousin Sir Charles Abney-Hastings, 2nd Bt, a natural grandson of the 10th Earl of Huntingdon (brother of Lady Edith's grandmother). They had six children:

After her death her widowed husband was created Baron Donington.

References

  1. Adamson, Archibald R. (1875), Rambles Round Kilmarnock. Pub. T. Stevenson, Kilmarnock. P. 150.
Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by
Henry Rawdon-Hastings
Countess of Loudoun
18681874
Succeeded by
Charles Clifton
Peerage of England
Preceded by
abeyant
last held by
Henry Rawdon-Hastings
Baron Hastings
Baron Botreaux
Baron Hungerford
Baron De Moleyns

18711874
Succeeded by
abeyant
next held by Charles Rawdon-Hastings


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