Person:John Crichton-Stuart (1)

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John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, (12 September 1847 – 9 October 1900) was a landed aristocrat, industrial magnate, antiquarian, scholar, philanthropist, and architectural patron.

Succeeding to the marquisate at the age of only six months, his vast inheritance reportedly made him the richest man in the world. His conversion to Catholicism from the Church of Scotland at the age of 21 scandalised Victorian society and led Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli to use the Marquess as the basis for the eponymous hero of his novel Lothair, published in 1870. Marrying into one of Britain's most illustrious Catholic families, Bute became one of the leaders of the British Catholic community. His enormous expenditure on building and restoration made him the foremost architectural patron of the 19th century.

Lord Bute died in 1900, at the age of only 53; his heart was buried on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. He was a Knight Grand Cross of the Holy Sepulchre, Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great and Hereditary Keeper of Rothesay Castle.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Church of Scotland. Kingarth Parish registers, 1727-1854.

   Births 1847
   John Patrick lawful Son of John Crichton Stuart K.T. And Sophia Frederica Christina Hastings his Wife (The Most Noble the Marquis and Marchioness of Bute) was born at Mountstewart House in the Parish of Kingarth in the Island and County of Bute on Sunday the Twelfth (12th) day of September in the year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty seven (1847.)
   
   The Baptism was solemnized at Mountstewart in the said Parish of Kingarth and in the said Island and County of Bute on Friday the twenty second (22nd) day of October in the year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty seven [1847] by the Revd. Moses Mitchell M.A. of Magdalene Hall, Oxford, Domestic Chaplain to the Marquis of Bute K.T.

3. ↑ Death certificate, in General Register Office for Scotland. Civil Registration.

   1900 DEATHS in the Parish of Old Cumnock in the County of Ayr
   No.58
   Name: John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, Marquess of Bute, Landed Proprietor (married to Lady Gwendoline Mary Howard)
   When and where died: 1900 October Ninth 1h 45am, Dumfries House, Cumnock
   Sex: M
   Age: 53 years
   Father: John Crichton Stuart, Landed Proprietor (Deceased)
   Mother: Lady Sophia Stuart M.S. Hastings (Deceased)
   Cause of death: Cerebral Haemorrhage Left Hemiplegia 21 hours Coma as cert. by John Gilmour Ross, MBCM
   Informant: Dumfries, eldest son, present
   Registered: 1900 October 10th At Cumnock, Adam Urquhart, Registrar

4. ↑ England. National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),1858 onwards. (Ancestry.com).

   1901
   BUTE the most noble John Patrick Crichton Stuart marquess of, of Dumfries-house Ayrshire died 9 October 1900 Confirmation of the right honourable Edmund Bernard Talbot the right honourable Marmaduke Constable Maxwell baron Herries of Terregles and Archibald Robert Craufurd Pitman writer to the signet Sealed London 10 May

5.   Sir John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of the County of Bute, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.