John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, was a Scottish landed aristocrat, industrial magnate, antiquarian, scholar, philanthropist, and architectural patron.
John Crichton Stuart
Portrait of Lord Bute as a boy
Statue of The 3rd Marquess of Bute in the Friary Gardens, Cathays Park, Cardiff, Wales
Mount Stuart House
John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute, KT, FRS, styled Lord Mount Stuart between 1794 and 1814, was a wealthy Scottish aristocrat and industrialist in Georgian and early Victorian Britain. He dev
John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute
…Great and Hereditary Keeper of Rothesay Castle. The future Marquess was born at the family seat of Mount Stuart, on the Isle of Bute in Scotland, to John, 2nd Marquess of Bute, and Lady Sophia Rawdon-Hastings, daughter of The 1st Marquess of Hastings. At birth, he was known by the courtesy title Earl of Dumfries. The 2nd…
John Crichton Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute
Dumfries House, Bute's first home
Luton Hoo, Bute's residence in Bedfordshire, before the fire
Dowlais Ironworks, one of the various enterprises with which Bute was involved