Charles Stuart, 1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay

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Lord Stuart de Rothesay.

Charles Stuart, 1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay GCB (2 January 1779–6 November 1845) was a British diplomat, the son of Lt.-Gen. Hon. Sir Charles Crichton-Stuart (himself a son of the 3rd Earl of Bute).

On 6 February 1818 he married Elizabeth Margaret Yorke, a daughter of the 3rd Earl of Hardwicke and they had two children:

• Charlotte Stuart (1817–1861)
• Louisa Stuart (d. 1891)

Stuart's wife Elizabeth, Lady Stuart de Rothesay, and daughters Charlotte (later Countess Canning) and Louisa (later Marchioness of Waterford), painted by George Hayter in 1830.

Stuart served twice as British Ambassador to France in the years after the Napoleonic Wars. He was created Baron Stuart de Rothesay on 22 January 1828, at the time of his second appointment to Paris. He did not have any male heirs, however, and the title became extinct upon his death.

He was created Count of Machico in 1825 by John VI of Portugal and Marquess of Angra in Brazil in 1826 by Maria II of Portugal, and was a Knight of the Portuguese Order of the Tower and the Sword.

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Oliver & Boyd's New Edinburgh Almanack for the year