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From: James Dempster <>
Subject: Re: Britain's Real Monarch
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 17:09:26 +0000
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On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 16:50:49 GMT, "John Steele Gordon"
<> wrote:

>
>"Renia" <> wrote in message
>news:bt937c$42t$1@usenet.otenet.gr...
>
>> >>>Is his title real?
>> >>
>> >>Yes. Earl of Loudon.
>> >
>> >
>> > How come then the earldom is not listed in Whittaker's Almanack, for
>> > instance?
>>
>> He only inhertied his the earldom of Loudon from his mother, Barbara,
>> Countess of Loudon, last year.
>
>Leo van de Pas has kindly informed me that the proper spelling is Loudoun.
>But there is still no title by that name listed in Whitaker's (sorry for the
>misspelling above). The fact that the title passed only last year would make
>no difference.
>
>Perhaps the title has been dormant for more than a generation, although the
>inheritance seems relatively straight forward.

It's in my 1993 Whitaker's in the separate section for Countesses in
their own right, which comes at the end of the Earls but before the
Viscounts.

"1633 S. Loudoun (13th in line), Barbara Huddleston Abney-Hastings, b
1919, s 1960, m. Heir Lord Mauchline, b 1942."

Whitties has gone downhill badly in recent years but I would have
thought that the title would be in there somewhere.

James
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