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BUTE 443 6 Nov. 1794, at Isleworth, Midx., in her 77th year, and was bur. at Wortley. "Will pr. 21 Nov. i794.(') IV. 1792. 4 and I. John (Stuart), Earl of Bute, ^c. [S.], s. and h.() b. 30 June 1744, at Mount Stuart; MARQUESSATE. Ed. at Winchester and Oxford. M.P. (Tory) for ^ , Bossiney, 1 766-76. () Lord Lieut, of co. Glamorgan, ^79 • 1772-93, and again 1794-18 14. Having acquired the valuable estates near Cardiff and elsewhere in South Wales, which had descended to his wife through the family of Herbert, Earls of Pembroke, he, in consequence, was cr., v.p., 20 May 1766, BARON CARDIFF OF CARDIFF CASTLE.C^) F.S.A. 23 May 1776. P.C. 4 Aug. 1779; Envoy to Turin, 1779-83; Auditor of the Imprest 1781, till the abolition of the office 17820; Ambassador to Spain, Mar. to Dec. 1783 (being then styledQ) Viscount Mount-Stuart), and again (as Earl of Bute) 1795-96. Lord Lieut, of co. Bute, 1794 till his death. On 13 Nov. 1794 he sue. his mother as Baron Mount-Stuart OF Wortley, and on 21 Mar. 1796, he was cr. VISCOUNT MOUNT- JOY of the Isle of Wight, EARL OF WINDSOR and MARQUESS OF THE COUNTY OF BUTE. F.R.S., 12 Dec. 1799. Trustee of the Brit. Museum 1800 till his death. Councillor of State [S.] to the Prince of Wales, 1 806. He m., istly, 12 Nov. 1766, at St. John's Chapel, in (*) "One of the best and most sensible women in the world; and who, educated by such a mother, or rather with no education, has never made a false step." (Horace Walpole to Sir Horace Mann, 27 Jan. 1761). Their yst. da., Lady Louisa Stuart, was an excellent letter-writer, and close friend of Sir Walter Scott. She inherited much of the talent of her grandmother, Lady Mary Wortley-Montagu. V.G. () His next br., James Archibald, who, on the death of his mother in 1794, had inherited the estates of the Wortley family, took that name in 1795 after his patro- nymic of Stuart. He sue. on the death of his uncle, the Rt. Hon. James Stuart- Mackenzie, in 1 800 (see ante, p. 44 1 , 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 Mar. 1803, whereupon he assumed the additional name of Mackenzie. His s. and h. was in 1826 cr. Baron WharnclifFe. Another br., Sir Charles Stuart, K.B., was father of Charles Stuart, cr. in 1828 Baron Stuart de Rothesay {extinct 1845), whilst the yst. br., William Stuart, was Archbishop of Armagh, 1800 to 1822. (<=) As a peer (Lord Cardiff) he supported the Coalition of 1783, and voted generally with the Whigs till 1794, and again from 1802 till his death. V.G. C^) This was the 3rd of 10 Baronies [U.K.] all cr. on the same day, for a list of which see note j«^ Thomas, Baron Foley [1776], and for the more extended case of the 12 Baronies irr. in 1 7 12 see vol. i, p. 61, note " d," and ante, p. 28, note" b," V.G. {^) To compensate him for the loss of this office, which he had only held a year, he received ^^7,000 per annum for his life. (^) His more correct style would apparently have been "Lord Mountstuart " or "Viscount Kingarth," or "Viscount Mountjoy." See vol. iv. Appendix E, for some remarks on the custom generally prevailing in Courtesy titles.