John Stuart, first marquess of Bute

(1744-1814)

NAME AUTHORITIES: NRA: Stuart John (1744-1814) 1st Marquess of Bute DNB: Stuart, John, first marquess of Bute (1744-1814), diplomatist LBT ID: LdBute1	B/BAP: 1744-06-30 DIED: 1814-11-16
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The son of the third earl of Bute; he was educated at Winchester and Oxford and was Tory MP for Bossiney (1766-76); he was Ambassador to Spain (1795-96) and created Marquess of Bute in 1796.
REFERENCES TO John Stuart, first marquess of Bute: Robert Southey to Robert Lovel, 19 February 1796 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VIII 1814 Found 1: ¶ 29 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. IV. 1796 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter X Found 1: ¶ 4 Note to Chapter XIII Found 1: ¶ 4 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch X: 1814-15 Found 3: ¶ n1 ¶ 10 ¶ n1