James Stuart-Wortley (Liberal politician)

James Archibald Stuart-Wortley, PC, QC (3 July 1805 – 22 August 1881) was a British politician.

He became a barrister at the Inner Temple in 1831, rising to be a Queen's Counsel in 1841. He was a fellow of Merton College, Oxford.

On 6 May 1846 he married Jane Lawley (d.1900), daughter of Lord Wenlock. They had two sons and five daughters:^[1]

Mary Caroline Stuart-Wortley (10 May 1848 – 18 April 1941), married in London on 30 December 1880 Ralph King-Milbanke, 2nd Earl of Lovelace
Archibald John Stuart-Wortley (27 May 1849 – 11 October 1905), married in 1883 Eleanor Edith Bromley (d. 1939)
Charles Beilby Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Stuart of Wortley (15 September 1851 – 24 April 1926)
Margaret Jane Stuart-Wortley (d. 6 October 1937), married on 8 May 1877 Sir Reginald Chetwynd-Talbot, son of Henry Chetwynd-Talbot, 18th Earl of Shewsbury
Blanche Georgina Stuart-Wortley (d. 7 July 1931), married on 26 February 1895 Frederick Firebrace (d. 1917)
Caroline Susan Theodora Stuart-Wortley (d. 7 August 1940), married on 25 June 1881 Norman de l'Aigle Grosvenor, son of Robert Grosvenor, 1st Baron Ebury
Katharine Sarah Stuart-Wortley (d. 27 March 1943), married on 1 October 1883 Gen. Sir Neville Lyttelton, son of George Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton

In 1846, he was sworn a Privy Counsellor. He held office as Solicitor General for England and Wales under Lord Palmerston from November 1856 until May 1857.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Rawdon Briggs Sir Charles Wood	Member of Parliament for Halifax with Sir Charles Wood 1835–1837	Succeeded by Sir Charles Wood Edward Davis Protheroe
Preceded by Sir William Rae, Bt	Member of Parliament for Buteshire 1842–1859	Succeeded by David Mure
Legal offices
Preceded by Sir Richard Bethell	Solicitor-General 1856–1857	Succeeded by Sir Henry Singer Keating

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