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92 cute. Minister, 28 May 1762 tolf> April 1763, when he dually retired from public Jife.C a ! He was a great patron of literature and tho tine arts, am! was himself a distinguished botanist. In 1763 he purchased the estate of Luton Iloo, Beds, enlarging the park to 1200 acres and commencing to rebuild the mansion with great inagniticence after ;t design of the architect Adam. He was President of the Soe. of Antiquaries [S.] 1780 ; Chancellor of the Marisehal Coll., Aberdeen; Hon. Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians at Edinburgh, &c.( 1 ') lie m. 21 Aug. 1736, Mary, only da. of Edward WuuTLiiY-JIoNT.ua-, of Wortley, co. York, by Mary,( c ) da. of Evelyn (Piehhei-ont), 1st Duke of Kingston. He d. in London 10 March 1702, in his 70th year. His widow, who was b. at Pera, during her Father's Embassy to Constantinople, Feb. 1718, sue. on the death in Feb. 1761, of her said Father to his extensive estates in Yorkshire and Cornwall, her only br. Edward (who d. s p. 1776) having been disinherited for his eccentricity. On 3 April 1761 she was a: BARONESS MOUNT STUART OF WORTLEY, co. York, with rem. of that Barony to the heirs male of her body by her then husband. She d. at Isleworth, Midi., 6 Nov. 179-1, in her 77th year. IV, 1792. 4 and 1. John (Stuart), Earlof Bute, &c. [S.] s. and h.( a ) J. 30 June 1741 at Mount Stuart ; M.P. for P.osiney, 1766-76 Lor'l Marquessate. Eieut. of co. Glamorgan, 1772-98, and a^aiu 1794-1311 Having in. 1 Nov. 1766 at St. John's Chapel, St. Geo. Han. sq., Charlotte Jane, 1st da. j t -op alu ^ co ' lu ' r (eventually sole h.) of Herbert (Hickman- Windsor), Viscount 1. 1 < Jo. Windsor [I.] and Baron Mountjoy, by Alice, da. (whose issue became heir) to Sir John ClavKHINo, Bart., he, by this alliance, acquired the valuable estates near Cardiff and elsewhere in South Wales, which had descended to his wife thro' the family of Herbert, Earls of Pembroke, and, in consequence, was er. v. p. •JO May 1766, B A RON CARDIFF OF CARDIFF CASTLE. Col. Glam. Militia, 1778 ; P.C. 1779 ; Envoy to Turin, 1779-83 ; Ambassador to Spain, March to Dec. 1783 (being then sti/lcdi") Viscount Mount-Stuart), and again (as Earl of Bute) 1795-96, having, on 10 March 1792, sue. his Father in the Scotch Earldom ; Lord Lieut, of co. Bute, 1794. On 13 Nov. 1794 he sue. his mother as Baron Mount- Stuaht ok WOBTLBT, and on 21 March 1796, he was c>: VISCOUNT MOUNTJOY of the Isle of Wight, EARL OF WINDSOR and MARQUESS OF THE COUNTY OF BUTE. Councillor of State [S.] to the Prince of Wales, 1806 ; F.R.S., 1799, &c His first wife, who was 4. 7 May 1716, d. 28 Jany. 1S00 in Hill st, St. Geo. Han. sq. Admon. Feb. 1801. He m. secondly 17 Sep. 1800, Frances, 2d da. and coheir of Thomas Coutts of the Strand, Midi., Banker, by his 1st wife. The Marquess d. at Geneva 16 Nov. 1814.(0 His widow d. 12 Nov. 1832. ( a ) His influence with the Dow. Princess of Wales was supposed by the mob to control unduly and in a wrong direction the young King, so that his short Ministry was, consequently, an unpopular one. A jack-6oo( [bute] and a petticoat were burned (as emblems of the two) at some of the riotous meetings. ( b ) He had, under the act of 1747 abolishing heritable jurisdictions, an annuity of £2136 for the Sheriffship and Regality of Bute. ( c ) The well-known Lady Mary Wortley-Moutagu, who, after a residence of 22 years on the Continent, d. in England 21 Aug. 1762, aged 73. ( d ) His next br. James Archibald, who on the death of his Mother in 1794, had in- herited the estates of the Wortley family, took that name in 1795 after his patronymic of Stuart. He sue. on the death of his uncle, Rt. Hon. James Stuart- Mackenzie, in 1800 (see ante, note " b ") to the estates of the Mackenzie family, which, (after a long dispute between him and the Marquess, his nephew) were confirmed to him by the House of Lords 4 March 1803 whereupon he assumed the additional name of Mackenzie. His s. and h. was in 1826 cr. Baron Wharnclifke. Another br. Sir Charles Stuart, KB., was father of Charles Stuart, cr. in 1828 BaHOS Stuart du Rothesay {ex. 1845) whilst the yst. br. William Stuart, was Aitunmsiioi' 01 Armagh, 1800 to 1822. ( e ) His more correct style would apparently have been "Lord Mountstuart " or " Viscount Kingarth." See vol. i, p. 316, note "b" for some remarks on the custom generally prevailing in Courtesy titles. ( f ) He was also one of the Auditors of the Imprest, on tho abolition of- which oiiicc in 1782, he received £7000 a year for his life.