Marquess of Bute

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John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute

Marquess of Bute is a hereditary British title in the Peerage of Great Britain , named after the Scottish county of Bute . It is carried by the head of the Crichton-Stuart family, a branch of the old Anglo-Scottish royal family Stuart .

The family's ancestral home is Mount Stuart House on the island of Bute . The family also previously owned Dumfries House in Ayrshire .

Award

The title was created in 1795 for John Stuart, 4th Earl of Bute . He had initially been a member of the House of Commons for ten years , then ambassador to the Kingdom of Sardinia and finally Lord Lieutenant for Glamorgan and Bute.

Subordinate title

The great-grandfather of the first Marquess had already been appointed Earl of Bute in 1703 with the subordinate titles Viscount of Kingart and Lord Mount Stuart, Cumra and Inchmarnock . These titles all belong to the Peerage of Scotland .

John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute

The mother of the Marquess, Mary Stuart had in 1761 when her husband John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute , Prime Minister should be the title of Baroness Mount Stuart in, of Wortley county Yorkshire get awarded as your own dignity. This title, which belongs to the Peerage of Great Britain, could only pass to her male descendants from her marriage to John Stuart.

The first Marquess himself received the dignity of Baron Cardiff , of Cardiff Castle in the county of Glamorgan , as early as 1776, when his father was still alive, in honor of the considerable property he had inherited from his wife's family. This title also belongs to the Peerage of Great Britain.

Simultaneously with the Marquessat, the subordinate titles Earl of Windsor and Viscount Mountjoy , belonging to the same peerage , were awarded on the Isle of Wight in 1795 , both of which refer to expired titles that the Marquess's father-in-law had last worn.

The second marquess inherited from his maternal grandfather in 1803 the dignity of Earl of Dumfries created in 1633 with the subordinate titles Viscount of Ayr (created 1622), Lord Crichton of Sanquhar (created 1488), Lord Sanquhar (created 1622) and Lord Crichton of Cumnock ( created 1633), all in the Peerage of Scotland. Two years later he obtained royal permission to change his last name to Crichton-Stuart.

These titles are now all listed as subordinate titles to the Marquessat. The title heir today carries the courtesy title of Earl of Dumfries , whose eldest son is that of a Lord Mount Stuart . The latter title was used as a courtesy title of the title heir himself until the earliest dignity was acquired.

Another title

As early as 1627 James Stuart had been awarded the title of baronet , of Bute. This title, which belongs to the Baronetage of Nova Scotia , is also carried by the respective marquess.

List of the Stuart Baronets, Earls and Marquesses of Bute and Barons Mount Stuart

Stuart Baronets, of Bute (1627)

Earls of Bute (1703)

Marquesses of Bute (1796)

Coat of arms of the Marquess of Bute

The heir to the title is the son of the current marquess, John Bryson Crichton-Stuart, Earl of Dumfries (* 1989).

Barons Mount Stuart (1761)

because of the other bearers of the title see above

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