The Countess of Bute | |
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![]() Lady Bute in 1780 | |
Born | Mary Wortley Montagu 19 January 1718 |
Died | 6 November 1794 76) Isleworth, England | (aged
Resting place | St Leonard's Churchyard, Wortley, South Yorkshire, England |
Nationality | British |
Known for | Spouse of the prime minister of Great Britain (1762–1763) |
Spouse | |
Children | 11, including: John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute Hon. James Stuart Hon Frederick Stuart Hon. Charles Stuart Hon. William Stuart Lady Louisa Stuart |
Parent(s) | Sir Edward Wortley Montagu Lady Mary Pierrepont |
Mary Stuart, Countess of Bute, 1st Baroness Mount Stuart ( née Wortley Montagu; 19 January 1718 – 6 November 1794) was the wife of British nobleman John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, who served as Prime Minister from 1762 to 1763.
Lady Bute was born in 1718, the only daughter of Sir Edward Wortley Montagu and Lady Mary Pierrepont, the daughter of Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull. She was born during her father's tenure as ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, which her mother wrote about in her Letters from Turkey.
On 24 August 1736, she married John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, who became the prime minister of Great Britain in 1762. [1] The couple had five sons and six daughters, [1] including:
In 1761, she was created Baroness Mount Stuart, of Wortley in the county of York, with a remainder to her male heirs by her husband. [3]
Lady Bute died on 6 November 1794 in Isleworth, Middlesex. [1] [4] Her eldest son, John, succeeded to her title.
In 1774, Mary Delany wrote to her brother Bernard Granville, Jacobite Duke of Albemarle, saying: "You know so much of Lady Bute that I need say nothing of her agreeableness, her good sense, and good principles, which with great civility must be always pleasing." [5]
Writing for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Karl Wolfgang Schweizer said that: "Lady Bute seems to have been a woman of prudence, loyalty, and tact, greatly devoted to her husband and family." [1]
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute,, styled Lord Mount Stuart between 1713 and 1723, was a British nobleman who served as the Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1762 to 1763 under George III. He became the first Tory to hold the position and was arguably the last important royal favourite in British politics. He was the first prime minister from Scotland following the Acts of Union in 1707. He was also elected as the first president of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland when it was founded in 1780.
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Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, was an English aristocrat.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was an English aristocrat, medical pioneer, writer, and poet. Born in 1689, Lady Mary spent her early life in England. In 1712, Lady Mary married Edward Wortley Montagu, who later served as the British ambassador to the Sublime Porte. Lady Mary joined her husband on the Ottoman excursion, where she was to spend the next two years of her life. During her time there, Lady Mary wrote extensively on her experience as a woman in Ottoman Constantinople. After her return to England, Lady Mary devoted her attention to the upbringing of her family before dying of cancer in 1762.
Colonel James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 1st Baron Wharncliffe, PC was a British soldier and politician. A grandson of Prime Minister John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, he held office under Sir Robert Peel as Lord Privy Seal between 1834 and 1835 and as Lord President of the Council between 1841 and 1845.
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Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Stuart was a British Army officer and politiciain. The fourth son of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute and Mary Wortley Montagu, he was born in Kenwood House, London. There is a famous painting in the Tate Gallery, London, of him aged 10 stealing eggs and chicks from a bird's nest.
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James Stuart-Mackenzie PC FRSE FSA was a Scottish politician and joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783. The second son of James Stuart, 2nd Earl of Bute, he served as Member of Parliament for various Scottish constituencies of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1742 to 1780. Stuart-Mackenzie was the British Minister at Turin from 1758 to 1761. He was made a Privy Councillor in 1761, and served as Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland from 1763 to 1765, and again from the following year until his death in 1800.
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Mary Montagu may refer to:
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