Edith Maud Abney-Hastings, 12th Countess of Loudoun (13 May 1883 – 24 February 1960) was a British peeress.
Paulyn Abney-Hastings (the second son of Charles Abney-Hastings, 1st Baron Donington, and Edith Rawdon-Hastings, 10th Countess of Loudoun) and his wife, Lady Maud née Grimston (the third daughter of James Grimston, 2nd Earl of Verulam).
[6][7] On 23 June that year, the two sisters also petitioned for the earldoms of Warwick and Salisbury, and for the baronies of Montagu, Montacute, Monthermer and Pole of Montagu, as descendants of Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick, and Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, and for the latters attainders to be reversed.
[8][9] However, James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury, and Francis Greville, 5th Earl of Warwick, counter-petitioned and the attainders were not reversed.
Heating was by coal and log fires and it is thought that burning resin came back down the library chimney and set the wooden floor alight.