James Stuart, 8th Earl of Moray
KT (1708 – 5 July 1767) was the son of
Francis Stuart, 7th Earl of Moray
Francis Stuart, 7th Earl of Moray (before 1683 – 11 December 1739) was the son of Alexander Stuart, 5th Earl of Moray and his wife, Emilia Balfour. He married Jean Elphinstone, daughter of John Elphinstone, 4th Lord Balmerinoch and Christia ...
.
In 1741, he was elected as one of the 16 Scottish
Representative peer
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s who sat in the post-1707 British
House of Lords
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, a position he retained until his death.
Life
James Stuart was born in 1708
In 1734, James married Grace Lockhart (1706–1738), granddaughter of the
9th Earl of Eglington and widow of
3rd Earl of Aboyne. Before her death in 1738, they had two children, Francis, (1737–1810), who succeeded as Earl of Moray, and Euphemia (1738–1771). He married again in 1740, this time to Margaret Wemyss, eldest daughter of the
Earl of Wemyss; they had two sons, Lt-Colonel James Stuart (1741–1809), and Lieutenant (RN) David Stuart (1745–1784).
In 1755 he purchased Balmerino House in
Leith
Leith (; gd, Lìte) is a port area in the north of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, founded at the mouth of the Water of Leith. In 2021, it was ranked by ''Time Out'' as one of the top five neighbourhoods to live in the world.
The earliest ...
from the Crown who had confiscated the house due to
Lord Balmerino's active support of the Jacobite Rebellion.
[Cassels Old and New Edinburgh vol.6 ch. 24]
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Earls of Moray
Knights of the Thistle
1708 births
1767 deaths
Scottish representative peers
Scottish Freemasons
People from Moray
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