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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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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Charlotte Jane ''Charlotte Jane'' was one of the First Four Ships in 1850 to carry emigrants from England to the new colony of Canterbury in New Zealand. Maiden voyage The ''Charlotte Jane'' departed from England in 1848, bound for Sydney. Captain Alexander L ...

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Cardiff Cardiff (; cy, Caerdydd ) is the capital and largest city of Wales. It forms a principal area, officially known as the City and County of Cardiff ( cy, Dinas a Sir Caerdydd, links=no), and the city is the eleventh-largest in the United Kingd ...

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Herbert Mackworth Herbert Mackworth (7 September 1687 – 20 August 1765) was a Welsh landowner, coal owner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1739 to 1765. Early life Mackworth was the son of Sir Humphrey Mackworth of Gnoll, Glamorganshir ...

, successor = Lord Evelyn Stuart John Stuart, Lord Mount Stuart (25 September 1767 – 22 January 1794), was a British

Tory A Tory () is a person who holds a political philosophy known as Toryism, based on a British version of traditionalism and conservatism, which upholds the supremacy of social order as it has evolved in the English culture throughout history. The ...

politician. Mount Stuart was the son of the

, and the grandson of Prime Minister

John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, (; 25 May 1713 – 10 March 1792), styled Lord Mount Stuart between 1713 and 1723, was a British nobleman who served as the 7th Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1762 to 1763 under George III. He was arguabl ...

. His mother was the Hon. Charlotte Jane, daughter and heiress of

Herbert Windsor, 2nd Viscount Windsor Herbert Windsor, 2nd Viscount Windsor (1 May 1707 – 25 January 1758), styled The Honourable Herbert Windsor until 1738, was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1734 until 1738 when he succeeded to the ...

. He was born at Grosvenor Square,

, in 1767 and educated at

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and St John's College, Cambridge.{{cite book , url=https://archive.org/details/DouglasRScotsPeerageVol21905/page/n333/mode/2up , title=The Scots Peerage Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland , editor=Sir James Balfour Paul , volume=2 , year=1905 , publisher=David Douglas , location=Edinburgh {{acad, id=STRT784J, name=Stuart, the Hon. John In 1790, he was elected

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for

, a seat he held until his death. He took over from his father as

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of the Glamorgan Militia in 1791 and was also Lord-Lieutenant of Glamorganshire between 1793 and his death.Bryn Owen, ''History of the Welsh Militia and Volunteer Corps 1757–1908'', Vol 2: ''The Glamorgan Regiments of Militia'', Caernarfon: Palace Books, 1990, ISBN 1-871904-01-3, p. 38 & Appendix 4. Lord Mount Stuart married Lady Elizabeth McDouall-Crichton, daughter of

Patrick McDouall-Crichton, 6th Earl of Dumfries {{Infobox noble, type , name = Patrick McDouall-Crichton , title = Earl of Dumfries (1768-1803){{cite book , url=https://archive.org/details/DouglasRScotsPeerageVol31906/page/n251/mode/2up , title=The Scots Peerage Fou ...

, and his wife Margaret (née Crauford), on 12 October 1792. They had two sons, who both added the surname "Crichton" before that of "Stuart" in 1805: *

(10 August 1793 – 18 March 1848) * Lord Patrick James Herbert Crichton-Stuart (25 August 1794 – 7 September 1859). In 1817 he obtained the rank of the son of a Marquess, which his father would have been, had he not died before ''his'' father, the 1st Marquess. Lord Mount Stuart died at Bassingbourn Hall near Stansted, Essex, in January 1794, only 26 years of age, a month after being injured in a fall from his horse. Lady Mount Stuart survived him by three years and died in July 1797, aged 24.

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