Lieutenant-Colonel Lieutenant colonel ( , ) is a rank of commissioned officers in the armies, most marine forces and some air forces of the world, above a major and below a colonel. Several police forces in the United States use the rank of lieutenant colo ...

James Frederick Dudley Crichton-Stuart (17 February 1824 – 24 October 1891) was a British soldier and

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politician. Crichton-Stuart was the son of

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 ...

and a great-great-grandson of Prime Minister

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. His mother was Hannah, daughter of

William Tighe William Frederick Fownes Tighe, PC, JP was Lord Lieutenant of Kilkenny from 1847 to 1878. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin. He married Lady Louisa Maddelena Lennox, daughter of General Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond and Lady Ch ...

, MP. He served with the

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and achieved the rank of

lieutenant-colonel Lieutenant colonel ( , ) is a rank of commissioned officers in the armies, most marine forces and some air forces of the world, above a major and below a colonel. Several police forces in the United States use the rank of lieutenant colo ...

. In 1859 he was returned to Parliament for

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, a seat previously held by his father, and represented this constituency in the

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until 1880. Between 1859 and 1891 he also served as Lord-Lieutenant of Buteshire. Crichton-Stuart married Gertrude Frances, daughter of Sir

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, in 1864. They had several children. Crichton-Stuart died in October 1891, aged 67. His wife survived him by eighteen years and died in December 1909.

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