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Charles Stuart, 12th Lord Blantyre
b.21 Dec 1818
d.15 Dec 1900
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Name Charles Stuart, 12th Lord Blantyre
Gender Male
Birth[1][2] 21 Dec 1818
Marriage 4 Oct 1843 Trentham, Staffordshire, Englandto Lady Evelyn Sutherland-Leveson-Gower
Death[1][2] 15 Dec 1900
Reference Number? Q5082729?


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Charles Walter Stuart, 12th Lord Blantyre, DL (21 December 1818 – 15 December 1900), styled Master of Blantyre from birth until 1830, was a Scottish politician and landowner with .[1]

Born at Lennoxlove House, Stuart was the second son of Robert Stuart, 11th Lord Blantyre and his wife Fanny Mary, the second daughter of the Hon. John Rodney, younger son of George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney. In 1830 at the age of only twelve, he succeeded his father as lord. Stuart entered the British Army and was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards.[2] He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Renfrewshire in 1845 and was elected a Representative Peer in 1850.

On 4 October 1843, he married Evelyn, the second daughter of George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland at Trentham, Staffordshire and had by her five daughters and a son, Walter, who predeceased him.

Stuart's wife died in Nice in 1869 and he survived her until 1900, dying aged 81 at Erskine House, which subsequently became Erskine Hospital (now a hotel, renamed Mar Hall). The lordship became extinct on his death.

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References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Charles Stuart, 12th Lord Blantyre, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59)
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