James Stuart-Wortley (politician, 1805)

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James Stuart-Wortley

James Archibald Stuart-Wortley (born July 3, 1805 in London , † August 22, 1881 in Grantham ) was a British politician and lawyer who was elected five times as a member of the House of Commons .

James Stuart-Wortley came from an old branch of the Stuarts , which was descended from the Scottish King Robert II . He was the third and youngest son of James Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Wharncliffe , and his wife Georgina, daughter of Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby . He graduated from Christ Church College , Oxford, with a bachelor's degree in 1826, and soon became a fellow of Merton College . In 1831 he was admitted to the Inner Temple as a barrister and in 1841 became Queen's Counsel . In 1844 he was an attorney for the Bank of England and in 1845 second Crown Attorney for the Queen Dowager Adelheid and Attorney General for the Duchy of Lancaster . In 1846 he became a member of the Privy Council and in the final months of Prime Minister Peel's second term, Chief Military Prosecutor. From 1851 to 1856 he was a London recorder , and in 1857 he succeeded Richard Bethell as Deputy Crown Prosecutor under Prime Minister Palmerston .

From 1835 to 1837 Stuart-Wortley was the Tories MP for Halifax in the House of Commons . In 1842, he was elected MP for Buteshire in a by- election. He was re-elected in the general election in 1847, 1852 and 1857. From 1846 he belonged to the Peelites , a split from the Tories. After a riding accident and a back injury, he had to resign from all offices in 1858 and his seat as a member of parliament in 1859. With no income and poor investments, he had to sell his London townhouse and move to Mortlake .

Stuart-Wortley had married Jane Lawley in 1846 , the only daughter of Paul Beilby Thompson, 1st Baron Wenlock and his wife Caroline Neville. He had the following children with her:

  1. Mary Caroline Stuart-Wortley (1848–1941) ∞ Ralph King-Milbanke, 2nd Earl of Lovelace
  2. Margaret Jane Stuart-Wortley (1854–1937) ∞ Reginald Talbot
  3. Archibald John Stuart-Wortley (1849–1905)
  4. Charles Beilby Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Stuart of Wortley (1851-1926)
  5. Caroline Susan Theodora Stuart-Wortley (1856–1940) ∞ Norman de L'Aigle Grosvenor
  6. Blanche Georgina Stuart-Wortley (1856–1931) ∞ Frederick Firebrace
  7. Katherine Sarah Stuart-Wortley (1860–1943) ∞ Neville Lyttelton

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lori Williamson: Wortley, Jane Stuart- (1820-1900). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
personal data
SURNAME Stuart-Wortley, James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stuart-Wortley, James Archibald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1881
Place of death Grantham (Lincolnshire)