Earl of Camperdown, of Lundie in the County of Forfar and of Gleneagles in the County of Perth, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain...

. It was created in 1831 for Robert Haldane-Duncan, 2nd Viscount Duncan. He was the son of the noted naval commander Admiral Adam Duncan who was Commander-in-Chief of the North Sea from 1795 to 1801 and defeated a Franco-Dutch fleet at the Battle of Camperdown

Battle of Camperdown

The Battle of Camperdown was a major naval action fought on 11 October 1797 between a Royal Navy fleet under Admiral Adam Duncan and a Dutch Navy fleet under Vice-Admiral Jan de Winter...

 in October 1797. Later the same month he was honoured when he was raised to the Peerage of Great Britain

Peerage of Great Britain

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 as Baron Duncan, of Lundie in the Shire of Perth, and Viscount Duncan, of Camperdown and of Lundie in Our Shire of Perth. The first Earl was succeeded by his son, the second Earl. He was a Liberal

Liberal Party (UK)

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 politician and held minor office under Lord Palmerston

Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, KG, GCB, PC , known popularly as Lord Palmerston, was a British statesman who served twice as Prime Minister in the mid-19th century...

 from 1855 to 1858. Lord Camperdown assumed the additional surname of Haldane, which was the maiden name of his paternal grandmother. On his early death the titles passed to his eldest son, the third Earl. He was also a Liberal politician and served under William Ewart Gladstone

William Ewart Gladstone

William Ewart Gladstone FRS FSS was a British Liberal statesman. In a career lasting over sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four separate times , more than any other person. Gladstone was also Britain's oldest Prime Minister, 84 years old when he resigned for the last time...

 as a Lord of the Admiralty from 1870 to 1874. He never married and was succeeded by his younger brother, the fourth Earl. He emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts, where he also died. Lord Camperdown was childless and on his death in 1933 all his titles became extinct.

William Duncan, uncle of the first Viscount, was created a Baronet in 1764 (see Duncan Baronets

Duncan Baronets

There have been three Baronetcies created for persons with the surname Duncan, one in the Baronetage of Great Britain and two in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. All three creations are extinct....

).

Viscounts Duncan (1797)

• Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan (1731–1804)
• Robert Dundas Haldane-Duncan, 2nd Viscount Duncan (1785–1859) (created Earl of Camperdown in 1831)

Earls of Camperdown (1831)

• Robert Dundas Haldane-Duncan, 1st Earl of Camperdown (1785–1859)
• Adam Haldane-Duncan, 2nd Earl of Camperdown
  Adam Haldane-Duncan, 2nd Earl of Camperdown
  Adam Haldane-Duncan, 2nd Earl of Camperdown , styled Viscount Duncan between 1831 and 1859, was a British nobleman and politician....
  
   (1812–1867)
• Robert Adam Philips Haldane Haldane-Duncan, 3rd Earl of Camperdown
  Robert Haldane-Duncan, 3rd Earl of Camperdown
  Robert Adam Philips Haldane Haldane-Duncan, 3rd Earl of Camperdown , styled Viscount Duncan from 1859 to 1867, was a British Liberal politician.-Biography:...
  
  (1841–1918)
• George Alexander Philips Haldane Haldane-Duncan, 4th Earl of Camperdown (1845–1933)