Colin Robert Vaughan Campbell, 7th Earl Cawdor, DL (born 30 June 1962), styled Viscount Emlyn from 1970–93, is a Scottish peer, landowner, and architect.
Born in Carmarthen,[1] 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.
[2] He also inherited a Scottish estate of some 50,000 acres and Cawdor Castle,[3] which is one of the locations of the Shakespeare play Macbeth.
[4] On 21 October 1994, at Adare, County Limerick, Lord Cawdor married Lady Isabella Stanhope, youngest daughter of William Stanhope, 11th Earl of Harrington.
[9][10] 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.