Charles Beilby Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Stuart of Wortley (15 September 1851 – 24 April 1926), was a British

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politician who sat in the

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from 1880 until 1916, shortly before he was raised to the

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. He served as

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between 1885–1886 and 1886–1892 in the Conservative administrations headed by

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Background and education

A member of the Stuart family headed by the

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, Stuart-Wortley was the son of James Stuart-Wortley, youngest son of

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, son of James Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, second son of Prime Minister

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. His mother was the Hon. Jane Stuart-Wortley (born Lawley).Jane Stuart Wortley
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Retrieved 31 January 2016 He was educated at Rugby and

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and called to the bar at

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in 1876. He was secretary to the Royal Commission on the Sale of Benefices from 1879 to 1880.Debretts Guide to the House of Commons 1886
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Political career

In 1880 Stuart-Wortley was the first

to be elected as a Member of Parliament for

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, and when this constituency was broken up under the

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, he was elected in the 1885 general election as MP for the new Sheffield Hallam constituency. He served under

between 1885 and 1886 and again from 1886 to 1892. In 1896 he was admitted to the Privy Council. Stuart-Wortley resigned from the

on 16 December 1916 and in 1917 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Stuart of Wortley, of the City of Sheffield.

Personal life

Lord Stuart of Wortley married Beatrice, daughter of

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and Theodosia Trollopethepeerage.com Charles Beilby Stuart-Wortley, 1st and last Baron Stuart of Wortley
retrieved 21 September 2014 (and niece of the author

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), in 1880. Beatrice died in July 1881 and Stuart married as his second wife Alice Sophia Caroline Millais (1862–1936), daughter of the artist

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. Known to her family as Carrie, she and her husband shared an interest in music, playing the Grieg and Schumann concertos on two grand pianos at their home. Among her friends were the art critic Claude Phillips, the arts patron Frank Schuster, Lady Charles Beresford and the composer

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to whom she was known as Alice and 'Windflower'. He died in April 1926, aged 74, when the barony became extinct.

Honours

In October 1920, the

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gave the name ''Lord Stuart of Wortley'' to one of their newly built

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express passenger locomotives, no. 1168 of class 9P (LNER class B3). It carried the name until withdrawal in September 1946.

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Barons created by George V Church Estates Commissioners