John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute

John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute circa 1915

John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute KT (20 June 1881 – 25 April 1947) was a Scottish peer.

Biography

He was the son of John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute and Gwendolen Fitzalan-Howard, a daughter of Edward Fitzalan-Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Glossop and granddaughter of Henry Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk.

He was educated at Harrow School, and succeeded his father as Marquess of Bute in 1900. In early 1902 he was on a tour in the Far East. On reaching his majority in June 1902, he received the Honorary Freedom of the Burgh of Rothesay.^[1]

On 6 July 1905, he married Augusta Bellingham, daughter of Sir (Alan) Henry Bellingham, 4th Baronet and Catherine Noel (a descendant, through her maternal grandmother, Elizabeth FitzClarence, of William IV); they had seven children:

• Lady Mary Crichton-Stuart (8 May 1906 – 1980), married Edward Walker and had issue.
• John Crichton-Stuart, 5th Marquess of Bute (4 August 1907 – 14 August 1956)
• Lady Jean Crichton-Stuart (28 October 1908 – 23 October 1995), married Lt.-Cmdr. Hon. James Bertie and had issue (two sons); her elder son was Fra' Andrew Willoughby Ninian Bertie, Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta from 1988 until his death in 2008.
• Lord Robert Crichton-Stuart (12 December 1909 – 1976), married Lady Janet Egida Montgomerie (1911–1999), daughter of Archibald Montgomerie, 16th Earl of Eglinton and had issue.
• Lord David Crichton-Stuart (8 February 1911 – 1970), married Ursula Packe and had issue.
• Lord Patrick Crichton-Stuart (1 February 1913 – 5 February 1956), married Jane von Bahr and had issue.
• Captain Lord Rhidian Crichton-Stuart (4 June 1917 – 25 June 1969), married Selina van Wijk and had issue.

Ancestry

References

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Marquess of Bute