James Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie

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James Archibald Stuart, later Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie (19 September 1747 – 1 March 1818), British politician and soldier, was the second son of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute and his wife Mary Stuart, Countess of Bute.

On 8 June 1767 he married Margaret Cunynghame, daughter of Sir David Cunynghame, 3rd Baronet, and they had five children:^[1]

• John Stuart-Wortley (1773–1797)
• James Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 1st Baron Wharncliffe (1776–1845)
• Mary Stuart-Wortley (d. 9 March 1855), married on 1 June 1813 William Dundas (d. 1845)
• Louisa Harcourt Stuart-Wortley (October 1781 – 31 January 1848), married in London on 22 June 1801 George Percy, 2nd Earl of Beverley, later Duke of Northumberland
• George Stuart-Wortley (1783–1813)

A colonel in the Bedfordshire militia, he raised the 92nd Regiment of Foot in 1779, and was appointed lieutenant-colonel commanding. He brought it to the West Indies in 1780, and suffered severely in health. He returned home in 1783 and the regiment was disbanded, following the Treaty of Paris. Upon the death of his mother, in 1794, he inherited the properties of the Wortley family, and assumed that surname on 17 January 1795. In 1800, he added the additional surname of Mackenzie, having succeeded to the estates of his uncle James Stuart Mackenzie.^[2]

[edit] References

1. ^ Theroff's Online Gotha, Bute. Retrieved on 2006-12-01.
2. ^ Family of the Marquis of Bute. Retrieved on 2006-12-01.

• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Alexander Wedderburn	Member of Parliament for Ayr Burghs 1768–1774	Succeeded by Sir George Macartney
Preceded by The Viscount Fortrose	Member of Parliament for Buteshire and Caithness 1774–1780	Succeeded by John Sinclair
Preceded by Viscount Cranborne Sir Ralph Payne	Member of Parliament for Plympton Erle with Sir Ralph Payne 1780–1784	Succeeded by Paul Treby Ourry John Stephenson
Preceded by John Sinclair	Member of Parliament for Buteshire and Caithness 1784–1790	Succeeded by Sir John Sinclair, Bt
Preceded by Charles Stuart Matthew Montagu	Member of Parliament for Bossiney with Humphrey Minchin 1790–1796 Evelyn Pierrepont 1796 1790–1796	Succeeded by John Stuart-Wortley John Lubbock
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Sir John Sinclair, Bt	Member of Parliament for Buteshire and Caithness 1806–1807	Succeeded by Sir John Sinclair, Bt
Military offices
Preceded by Regiment raised	Lieutenant-Colonel of the 92nd Regiment of Foot 1779–1783	Succeeded by Regiment disbanded