John Crichton-Stuart, 5th Marquess of Bute (4 August 1907 – 14 August 1956) was the son of
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 Fitzalan ...
, and Augusta Bellingham.
Marriage and children
On 26 April 1932, he married Lady Eileen Beatrice Forbes (1912–1993), a daughter of
Bernard Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard
Bernard Arthur William Patrick Hastings Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard, (17 September 1874 – 10 September 1948), styled Viscount Forbes from 1874 to 1889, was an Anglo-Irish soldier and Liberal politician.
Background
Granard was the son of G ...
by his wife
Beatrice Mills Forbes, an American socialite who was the daughter of
Ogden Mills. They had four children:
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John Crichton-Stuart, 6th Marquess of Bute (27 February 1933 – 22 July 1993)
# Lord David Crichton-Stuart (27 February 1933 – 1977)
# Lord James Crichton-Stuart (17 September 1935 – 5 December 1982). He married and divorced the fashion model
Sarah Frances Croker-Poole, who later married the Muslim religious leader
Aga Khan IV
Shāh Karim al-Husayni (born 13 December 1936), known by the religious title Mawlānā Hazar Imam by his Ismaili followers and elsewhere as Aga Khan IV, is the 49th and current Imam of Nizari Ismailis, a denomination within Shia Islam. He ha ...
, converted to Islam, took the name '
Salimah Aga Khan' and became the mother of three children by the Aga Khan, including his probable heir,
Rahim Aga Khan.
# Lady Caroline Moira Fiona Crichton-Stuart (born 7 January 1941)
Interests
The Marquess was an expert
ornithologist
Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the "methodological study and consequent knowledge of birds with all that relates to them." Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and th ...
; in 1931 he bought the islands of
St Kilda to preserve them as a bird sanctuary, leaving them to the National Trust for Scotland in 1956.
In 1953, the Marchioness of Bute and Lady St David's Fund was set up to encourage and support women to train as nurses and midwives in south Wales.
Ancestry
On his father's side, the 5th Marquess was a direct male-line descendant of
Robert II of Scotland
Robert II (2 March 1316 – 19 April 1390) was King of Scots from 1371 to his death in 1390. The son of Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland, and Marjorie, daughter of King Robert the Bruce, he was the first monarch of the House of S ...
through John Stewart, his illegitimate son by Moira Leitch. On his mother's side, the 5th Marquess was a descendant of
William IV of the United Kingdom
William IV (William Henry; 21 August 1765 – 20 June 1837) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death in 1837. The third son of George III, William succeeded h ...
through
Elizabeth Hay, Countess of Erroll, one of his illegitimate daughters by his mistress
Dorothea Bland
Dorothea Jordan, née Bland (21 November 17615 July 1816), was an Anglo-Irish actress, as well as a courtesan. She was the long-time mistress of Prince William, Duke of Clarence, later William IV, and the mother of ten illegitimate children by ...
. As such, the 5th Marquess was the first member of the Bute family to be descended from William IV.
See also
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Falkland Palace
Falkland Palace, in Falkland, Fife, Scotland, is a royal palace of the Scottish Kings. It was one of the favourite places of Mary, Queen of Scots, providing an escape from political and religious turmoil. Today it is under the stewardship of ...
References
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1907 births
1956 deaths
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Vice-Lieutenants of Buteshire
Scottish ornithologists
20th-century British zoologists