Francis Stuart, 16th Earl of Moray

Lieutenant Colonel Francis James Stuart, 16th Earl of Moray was a Scottish peer and soldier.

Early life

Stuart was born on 16 April 1855. He was the second son of the Rev. Edmund Luttrell Stuart and Elizabeth Stuart. Among his siblings were elder brother Edmund Archibald Stuart and Morton Gray Stuart.
His paternal grandparents were Hon. Archibald Stuart and Cornelia Pleydell. His maternal grandfather was the Rev. J. L. Jackson.
A soldier, he became a lieutenant colonel in the Liverpool Regiment.

Career

Upon the death of his elder brother, Edmund Stuart, 15th Earl of Moray on 16 March 1895, he succeeded as the 14th Earl of Moray (as well as the 14th Lord St Colme, 16th Lord Abernethy and Strathearn, the 15th Lord Doune, all in the Peerage of Scotland, and the 7th Baron Stuart of Castle Stuart in the Peerage of Great Britain.
He served as Deputy Lieutenant for Perthshire and was a justice of the peace for Dorset, Perthshire, and for Fife.

Personal life

On 24 June 1879, Stuart married Gertrude Floyer Smith, daughter of the Rev. Francis Smith, Rector of Tarrant Rushton and Mary Isabella Bogue. They did not have any children.
Lord Moray died on 20 November 1909 and was succeeded in the earldom by his younger brother, Morton Gray Stuart. His widow, the dowager Lady Moray, died on 15 March 1928.