John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute

The Marquess of Bute
The Marquess of Bute; KT
	The 4th Marquess of Bute circa 1915
Personal details
Born	20 June 1881; Chiswick, London, England
Died	25 April 1947 (aged 65)
Spouse(s)	Augusta Bellingham (m. 1905)
Children	Lady Mary Walker; John Crichton-Stuart, 5th Marquess of Bute; Lady Jean Bertie; Lord Robert Crichton-Stuart; Lord David Crichton-Stuart; Lord Patrick Crichton-Stuart; Lord Rhidian Crichton-Stuart
Parents	John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute; Hon. Gwendolen Fitzalan-Howard
Alma mater	Harrow School

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

"The Bute", caricature by "WHO" in Vanity Fair, 1910.

Biography

Lord Bute was born at Chiswick House in Chiswick, London. He was the son of The 3rd Marquess of Bute and Hon. Gwendolen Fitzalan-Howard, a daughter of The 1st Baron Howard of Glossop and granddaughter of The 13th Duke of Norfolk.

He was educated at Harrow School, and succeeded his father as Marquess of Bute in October 1900, when he was nineteen years old. 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] and later the same month took the oath and his seat in the House of Lords.[2]

The 4th Marquess, like his father, had a passion for architecture and was responsible for restoring Caerphilly Castle in South Wales.[3] In 1936 he published a pamphlet entitled "A Plea for Scotland's Architectural Heritage", which argued for the preservation of Scotland's smaller burgh dwellings and advocated reconditioning traditional working class housing, rather than wholesale demolition.[4] He became "the man who sold a city" when, in 1938, he disposed of the remaining Bute family estate in Cardiff.[3]

Family life

On 6 July 1905, the young Lord Bute married Augusta Bellingham, daughter of Sir (Alan) Henry Bellingham, 4th Baronet, and Catherine Noel. The lavish wedding, at Castle Bellingham in the village of Castlebellingham in County Louth, Ireland, was followed by a party at Mount Stuart House in Scotland. A film company was employed to film the event, one of the earliest examples of the aristocratic classes making a private film.[5]

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 – 26 June 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 – 3 March 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

Ancestors of John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute

16. John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute

8. John Stuart, Lord Mount Stuart

17. Charlotte Hickman-Windsor

4. John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute

18. Patrick McDouall-Crichton, 6th Earl of Dumfries

9. Elizabeth McDouall-Crichton

19. Margaret Crauford

2. John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute

20. John Rawdon, 1st Earl of Moira

10. Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings

21. Elizabeth Rawdon, Countess of Moira

5. Sophia Rawdon-Hastings

22. James Mure-Campbell, 5th Earl of Loudoun

11. Flora Campbell, 6th Countess of Loudoun

23. Flora Macleod

1. John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute

24. Bernard Edward Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk

12. Henry Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk

25. Elizabeth Belasyse

6. Edward Fitzalan-Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Glossop

26. George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland

13. Lady Charlotte Sophia Leveson-Gower

27. Elizabeth Sutherland, 19th Countess of Sutherland

3. Gwendolen Fitzalan-Howard

28. John Joseph Talbot

14. George Henry Talbot

29. Susan Harriet Anne Bedingfeld

7. Augusta Talbot

30. Sir Horace David Cholwell St. Paul, 1st Baronet of St. Paul

15. Augusta Jones

31. Ann Isaacson

References

"Court Circular". The Times (36800). London. 21 June 1902. p. 8.
"Parliament - House of Lords". The Times (36803). London. 25 June 1902. p. 6.
"Bute Family Timeline 1900 –". ButeFamily.com. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
Miles Glendinning; Ranald MacInnes; Aonghus MacKechnie (1996), A History of Scottish Architecture: From the Renaissance to the Present Day, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 423–4, ISBN 0-7486-0741-2
"Wedding Of The 4th Marquess Of Bute 1905, the". National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 10 December 2015.

Wales on line

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Honorary titles
Preceded by The Viscount Dunedin	Lord Lieutenant of Buteshire 1905–1920	Succeeded by Marquess of Graham
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by John Crichton-Stuart	Marquess of Bute 1900–1947	Succeeded by John Crichton-Stuart

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[1] "Court Circular". The Times (36800). London. 21 June 1902. p. 8.

[2] "Parliament - House of Lords". The Times (36803). London. 25 June 1902. p. 6.

[butefamily-3] "Bute Family Timeline 1900 –". ButeFamily.com. Retrieved 10 December 2015.

[4] Miles Glendinning; Ranald MacInnes; Aonghus MacKechnie (1996), A History of Scottish Architecture: From the Renaissance to the Present Day, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 423–4, ISBN 0-7486-0741-2

[5] "Wedding Of The 4th Marquess Of Bute 1905, the". National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 10 December 2015.