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John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute, Knight of the Thistle, KT, Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (10 August 1793 – 18 March 1848), styled Lord Mount Stuart between 1794 and 1814, was a wealthy Scottish aristocrat and industrialist in Ge ...

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, parliament = United Kingdom , term_start = 1790 , term_end = 1794 , predecessor = Herbert Mackworth , successor = Lord Evelyn Stuart John Stuart, Lord Mount Stuart (25 September 1767 – 22 January 1794), was a British

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politician. Mount Stuart was the son of the John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute, 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 Tory statesman who served as the Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1762 to 1763 under George III. He became the ...

. His mother was the Hon. Charlotte Jane, daughter and heiress of Herbert Windsor, 2nd Viscount Windsor. He was born at

, in 1767 and educated at Eton and

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.{{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 Member of Parliament 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, 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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John John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second E ...