John Stuart, Lord Mount Stuart

Who was John Stuart, Lord Mount Stuart?

John Stuart, Lord Mount Stuart, was an England-born Scottish Tory 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. His mother was the Hon. Charlotte Jane, daughter and heiress of Herbert Windsor, 2nd Viscount Windsor. He was born at Grosvenor Square, London in 1767 and educated at Eton and St John's College, Cambridge.

In 1790 he was elected Member of Parliament for Cardiff, a seat he held until his death. He was appointed Colonel of the Glamorganshire Militia in 1791 and was also Lord-Lieutenant of Glamorganshire between 1793 and his death.

Lord Mount Stuart married Lady Elizabeth McDouall-Crichton, daughter of the Patrick McDouall-Crichton, 6th Earl of Dumfries, and his wife Margaret, on 12 October 1792. They had two sons, who both added the surname "Crichton" before that of "Stuart" in 1805:

⁕John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute

⁕Lord Patrick James Herbert Crichton-Stuart. 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.