James Stuart, 8th Earl of Moray
KT (1708 – 5 July 1767) was the son of
Francis Stuart, 7th Earl of Moray.
In 1741, he was elected as one of the 16 Scottish
Representative peers who sat in the post-1707 British
House of Lords
The House of Lords, also known as the House of Peers, is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Membership is by appointment, heredity or official function. Like the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminste ...
, a position he retained until his death.
Life
James Stuart was born in 1708
In 1734, James married Grace Lockhart (1706–1738), granddaughter of the
9th Earl of Eglington and widow of
3rd Earl of Aboyne. Before her death in 1738, they had two children, Francis, (1737–1810), who succeeded as Earl of Moray, and Euphemia (1738–1771). He married again in 1740, this time to Margaret Wemyss, eldest daughter of the
Earl of Wemyss
Earl of Wemyss ( ) is a title in the Peerage of Scotland created in 1633. The Scottish Wemyss family had possessed the lands of Wemyss in Fife since the 12th century. Since 1823 the earldom has been held with the Earldom of March, created i ...
; they had two sons, Lt-Colonel James Stuart (1741–1809), and Lieutenant (RN) David Stuart (1745–1784).
In 1755 he purchased Balmerino House in
Leith
Leith (; gd, Lìte) is a port area in the north of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, founded at the mouth of the Water of Leith. In 2021, it was ranked by ''Time Out'' as one of the top five neighbourhoods to live in the world.
The earliest ...
from the Crown who had confiscated the house due to
Lord Balmerino
The title of Lord Balmerino (or Balmerinoch) was a title in the Peerage of Scotland; it was created in 1606 and forfeited in 1746 on the attainder and execution of the 6th Lord Balmerino in the Tower of London.
The title of Lord Coupar or Cupar w ...
's active support of the Jacobite Rebellion.
[Cassels Old and New Edinburgh vol.6 ch. 24]
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Earls of Moray
Knights of the Thistle
1708 births
1767 deaths
Scottish representative peers
Scottish Freemasons
People from Moray
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