This is a list of people who have served as

Lord Lieutenant A lord-lieutenant ( ) is the British monarch's personal representative in each lieutenancy area of the United Kingdom. Historically, each lieutenant was responsible for organising the county's militia. In 1871, the lieutenant's responsibility ...

Buteshire The County of Bute ( gd, Siorrachd Bhòid), also known as Buteshire, is a historic county and registration county of Scotland. The county comprises a number of islands in the Firth of Clyde, between the counties of Argyll and Ayrshire, the p ...

. The post was established in 1794 and abolished in 1975, being replaced by the Lord Lieutenant of Argyll and Bute and the

Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire and Arran This is a list of people who served as Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire and Arran, Scotland. The first Lord Lieutenant, Sir Bryce Knox, had previously been Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire. By virtue of the Lord Lieutenants Order 1975 he became Lord Lieute ...

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John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute PC, FRS (30 June 1744 – 16 November 1814), styled Lord Mount Stuart until 1792 and known as The Earl of Bute between 1792 and 1794, was a British nobleman, coalfield owner, diplomat and politician who sat in ...

17 March 1794 – 16 November 1814 *

John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute, KT, FRS (10 August 1793 – 18 March 1848), styled Lord Mount Stuart between 1794 and 1814, was a wealthy aristocrat and industrialist in Georgian and early Victorian Britain. He developed the coal ...

2 January 1815 – 18 March 1848 *

Lord Patrick Crichton-Stuart Lord Patrick James Herbert Crichton-Stuart (25 August 1794 – 7 September 1859), known as the Hon. Patrick Stuart until 1817, was a British politician. Born Patrick Stuart, he was the second son of John Stuart, Lord Mount Stuart, eldest son ...

17 April 1848 – 7 September 1859 * James Crichton-Stuart 14 November 1859 – 24 October 1891 *

John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, (12 September 1847 – 9 October 1900) was a landed aristocracy, aristocrat, industrial magnate, antiquarian, scholar, philanthropist, and architectural patron. Succeeding to the Marquess of ...

13 February 1892 – 9 October 1900 *

Andrew Murray, 1st Viscount Dunedin Andrew Graham Murray, 1st Viscount Dunedin, (21 November 1849 – 21 August 1942) was a Scottish politician and judge. He served as Secretary for Scotland between 1903 and 1905, as Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Sessi ...

1 January 1901 – 1905 *

John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute, KT (20 June 1881 – 25 April 1947), was a Scottish peer. Biography Lord Bute was born at Chiswick House in Chiswick, London. He was the son of The 3rd Marquess of Bute and Hon. Gwendolen Fitzala ...

31 March 1905 – 1920 *

James Graham, 6th Duke of Montrose Commodore James Graham, 6th Duke of Montrose (1 May 1878 – 20 January 1954) was a Scottish nobleman, naval officer, politician and engineer. He took the first film of a solar eclipse and is credited as the inventor of the aircraft carrier. ...

24 June 1920 – 1953 *

Lord Colum Crichton-Stuart Lord Colum (baptised Columba) Edmund Crichton-Stuart (KM, MP) was born on 3 April 1886 and died 18 August 1957, aged 71. Lord Colum Edmund Crichton-Stuart was the fourth child of John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of the County of Bute ( ...

15 April 1953 – 18 August 1957 *Lord Robert Crichton-Stuart 12 June 1958 – 1963 *

Ronald Graham Ronald Lewis Graham (October 31, 1935July 6, 2020) was an American mathematician credited by the American Mathematical Society as "one of the principal architects of the rapid development worldwide of discrete mathematics in recent years". He ...

19 July 1963 – 23 June 1967 *

John Crichton-Stuart, 6th Marquess of Bute John Crichton-Stuart, 6th Marquess of Bute, (27 February 1933 – 21 July 1993) was a Scottish peer, benefactor and patron of the arts. He was largely known either as Lord Bute or simply John Bute. Life John Crichton-Stuart was born in Mayfai ...

12 October 1967 – 1975

Deputy Lieutenants

*Richard Carnaby-Forster 4 March 1901

References

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