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John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute

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John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute, PC, FRS (30 June 1744 – 16 November 1814) was a British nobleman.

He was the son of the 3rd Earl of Bute and the former Mary Wortley Montagu, a granddaughter of the 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull and great-granddaughter of the 1st Earl of Sandwich. As his father's heir he was styled Lord Mount Stuart from birth.

He had several notable brothers and sisters, including The Hon. Sir Charles Stuart (1753–1801), a soldier who saw active service in the American Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic Wars and rose to the rank of lieutenant-general; The Most Rev. and Hon. William Stuart (1755–1822), a clergyman who became Archbishop of Armagh, and James Archibald Stuart (1747–1818), another soldier who raised the 92nd Regiment of Foot in 1779.Cokayne, George Edward, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom Extant, Extinct, or Dormant. His sisters were Lady Louisa Stuart (12 August 1757 – 4 August 1851), a writer who died unmarried, Lady Mary Stuart (c. 1741–1824), who married James Lowther, later the 1st Earl of Lonsdale; Lady Anne Stuart (born c. 1745), who married Lord Warkworth, later the 2nd Duke of Northumberland; Lady Jane Stuart (c. 1748–1828), who married George Macartney, later the first Earl Macartney; and Lady Caroline Stuart (before 1763–1813), who married The Hon. John Dawson, later first Earl of Portarlington.

He married The Hon. Charlotte Hickman-Windsor (daughter of the 2nd Viscount Windsor) on 12 November 1766 and they had five children:

Lord Mount Stuart was Tory Member of Parliament for Bossiney from 1766 to 1776, and in the latter year was elevated to the Peerage as Baron Cardiff, of Cardiff Castle in the County of Glamorgan. In 1779 he was sworn of the Privy Council. He succeeded his father as 4th Earl of Bute in 1792, and was created Viscount Mountjoy, in the Isle of Wight, Earl of Windsor and Marquess of Bute in 1794. Lord Bute was inducted a Fellow of the Royal Society on 12 December 1799.

His first wife died on 28 January 1800, and he married Frances Coutts (daughter of Thomas Coutts) on 17 September 1800 and had two children:

His second wife outlived him, and died on 12 November 1832.



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