Charles Stuart, 12th Lord Blantyre

Charles Stuart, 12th Lord Blantyre, DL (21 December 1818 – 15 December 1900),[1] styled Master of Blantyre from birth until 1830, was a Scottish nobleman and landowner with 14,100 acres (57 km2) of titled lands.[2]

Arms of Stuart, Lord Blantyre

Born at Lennoxlove House, he was the second son of Maj.-Gen. Robert Stuart, 11th Lord Blantyre and his wife Frances Mary, the second daughter of the Hon. John Rodney, younger son of Admiral George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney.[3] In 1830 at the age of only twelve, he succeeded his father as Lord Blantyre.[2] Stuart entered the British Army and was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards.[4] He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Renfrewshire in 1845 and was elected a Scottish representative peer in 1850.[5]

On 4 October 1843 at Trentham, Staffordshire, Blantyre married Lady Evelyn, the second daughter of George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland, and had by her five daughters and a son, Walter, who predeceased him.[6]

Lord Blantyre's wife died in Nice in 1869 and he survived her until 1900, dying aged 81 at Erskine House, which subsequently became Erskine Hospital (now a hotel, renamed Mar Hall).[4] The Lordship of Blantyre became extinct on his death.

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  1. ^ "Leigh Rayment - Peerage". Archived from the original on 8 June 2008. Retrieved 12 December 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ a b Who was Who, 1897–1916. London: Adam & Charles Black Ltd. 1920. p. 69.
  3. ^ Dod, Robert P. (1860). The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Whitaker and Co. p. 121.
  4. ^ a b Cokayne, George Edward (1912). Vicary Gibbs (ed.). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. Vol. II. London: The St Catherine Press Ltd. pp. 185–186.
  5. ^ Douglas, Sir Robert (1905). Sir James Balfour Paul (ed.). The Scots Peerage. Vol. II. Edinburgh: David Douglas. p. 92.
  6. ^ Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1895). Armorial Families. Edinburgh: Grange Publishing Works. p. 103.
  7. ^ Marsh, Catherine; Marsh, Catherine (1895). The Master of Blantyre. T. Nelson.
Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by Lord Blantyre
1830–1900
Extinct