Barbara Abney-Hastings, 13th Countess of Loudoun, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetBarbara Abney-Hastings, 13th Countess of Loudoun
British peeress and politician
Date of Birth: 03-Jul-1919
Date of Death: 01-Nov-2002
Profession: politician
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Barbara Abney-Hastings, 13th Countess of Loudoun
- Barbara Huddleston Abney-Hastings, 13th Countess of Loudoun (3 July 1919 – 1 November 2002), was a Scottish countess in her own right, and a member of the House of Lords.
- Lady Loudoun was the oldest daughter of Reginald Mowbray Chichester Huddleston and Edith Abney-Hastings, 12th Countess of Loudoun.
- Her only brother, Ian Huddleston Abney-Hastings, styled Lord Mauchline (1918–1944), was killed in Italy in World War II, so as the oldest sister Barbara succeeded in the earldom in 1960. Lady Loudoun was a member of the House of Lords until 1999 when the right of hereditary peers to sit in the Lords was abolished.
- She sat as a cross-bencher, and was concerned with social justice.
- She lived in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire.
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