John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, styled Lord Mount Stuart between 1713 and 1723, was a British Tory statesman who served as the Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1762 to 1763 under George III. He bec
Portrait of the Earl of Bute by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1773
Bute (1770)
Luton Hoo mansion in 2009
The north and south fronts of Luton Hoo as designed by Robert Adam
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne was an English Whig statesman who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain, and whose official life extended th
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute
…George's accession to the throne in 1760, but his plans were premature. It would first be necessary to remove both the incumbent prime minister (the Duke of Newcastle) and arguably the even more powerful Secretary of State for the Southern Department (William Pitt the Elder). The Government of the day, buoyed by…
Portrait by William Hoare, c. 1750
Newcastle House which he inherited from his uncle in 1711, and used as his primary London residence, often throwing lavish parties there.
From 1720 Newcastle allied himself with Robert Walpole. They would be political partners for the next 20 years, and Newcastle would remain a loyalist until Walpole's fall in 1742.
Newcastle (left) and Henry Clinton, 7th Earl of Lincoln as painted by Godfrey Kneller, c. 1721.