John Stuart, Lord Mount Stuart

John Stuart, Lord Mount Stuart (25 September 1767 – 22 January 1794), was a British Tory politician.

The Right Honorable Lord Mount Start
John Stuart (study for full-length portrait by Thomas Lawrence)
Member of Parliament for Cardiff
In office 1790–1794
Preceded by	Herbert Mackworth
Succeeded by	Lord Evelyn Stuart
Personal details
Born	(1767-09-25)25 September 1767 Grosvenor Square, London
Died	22 January 1794(1794-01-22) (aged 26) Bassingbourn Hall, Stansted, Essex
Spouse	Elizabeth Penelope McDouall-Crichton
Children	John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute Lord Patrick Crichton-Stuart
Parents	John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute (father) Charlotte Jane (mother)

Mount Stuart was the son of the John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute, and the grandson of Prime Minister John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute. His mother was the Hon. Charlotte Jane, daughter and heiress of Herbert Windsor, 2nd Viscount Windsor. He was born at Grosvenor Square, London, in 1767 and educated at Eton and St John's College, Cambridge.^[1][2]

In 1790, he was elected Member of Parliament for Cardiff, a seat he held until his death.^[1] He took over from his father as Colonel of the Glamorgan Militia in 1791 and was also Lord-Lieutenant of Glamorganshire between 1793 and his death.^[1][2][3]

Lord Mount Stuart married Lady Elizabeth McDouall-Crichton, daughter of Patrick McDouall-Crichton, 6th Earl of Dumfries, and his wife Margaret (née Crauford), on 12 October 1792.^[1] They had two sons, who both added the surname "Crichton" before that of "Stuart" in 1805:^[1]

• John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute (10 August 1793 – 18 March 1848)
• Lord Patrick James Herbert Crichton-Stuart (25 August 1794 – 7 September 1859). In 1817 he obtained the rank of the son of a Marquess, which his father would have been, had he not died before his father, the 1st Marquess.

Lord Mount Stuart died at Bassingbourn Hall near Stansted, Essex, in January 1794, only 26 years of age, a month after being injured in a fall from his horse.^[1][2] Lady Mount Stuart survived him by three years and died in July 1797, aged 24.^[1]

References

1. Sir James Balfour Paul, ed. (1905). The Scots Peerage Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland. Vol. 2. Edinburgh: David Douglas.
2. "Stuart, the Hon. John (STRT784J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
3. Bryn Owen, History of the Welsh Militia and Volunteer Corps 1757–1908, Vol 2: The Glamorgan Regiments of Militia, Caernarfon: Palace Books, 1990, ISBN 1-871904-01-3, p. 38 & Appendix 4.

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Sir Herbert Mackworth	Member of Parliament for Cardiff 1790–1794	Succeeded by Lord Evelyn Stuart
Honorary titles
Preceded by The Earl of Bute	Lord-Lieutenant of Glamorganshire 1793–1794	Vacant Title next held by The Earl of Bute