John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute

3rd Marquess of Bute

John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess o Bute, KT, KSG, KGCHS (1847 – 1900) wis a landed aristocrat, industrial magnate, antiquarian, scholar, philanthropist, an architectural patron.

Succeeding tae the marquisate at the age o onlie sax month, his vast inheritance reportitly made him the richest man in the the world. His conversion tae Catholicism at the age o 21 scandalised Victorian society an led the prime minister Benjamin Disraeli tae uise the marquess as the basis fur the eponymous hero o his novel Lothair, published in 1870.  

Marrying intae yin o Britain's maist illustrious Catholic families, Bute became yin o the leaders o the British Catholic community. His enormous expenditure oan building an restoration made him the foremost architectural pattin o the 19th century.

Mount Stuart, faimily seat oan Bute

He wis a Knight Grand Cross o' the Holy Sepulchre, Knight o the Order o St Gregory the Great an Hereditary Keeper o Rothesay Castle.

Bute died at the age o onlie 53 in 1900; he wis buriet in a wee chapel oan the Isle o Bute, his ancestral hame. His hert wis buried oan the Mount o Olives in Jerusalem.

John, Marquess o Bute marriet Gwendolen Fitzalan-Howard (dochter o Lord Howard o' Glossop) in 1872 an hud four children:

• Lady Margaret Crichton-Stuart (24 December 1875 – 6 Juin 1954)
• John, 4th Marquess o Bute (1881 -1947)
• Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart (1883 – 1915)
• Lord Colum Edmund Crichton-Stuart (1886 –1957