James Stuart, 4th Earl of Moray

James Stuart, 4th Earl of Moray was a Scottish nobleman and landowner.
He was the son of James Stuart, 3rd Earl of Moray and Lady Anne Gordon, a daughter of George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly and Henrietta Stewart.
He married Lady Margaret Home, daughter of Alexander Home, 1st Earl of Home and Mary Dudley, on 18 October 1627. The couple had eight children:

James Stuart, Lord Doune, who married Katherine Tollemache.
Alexander Stuart, 5th Earl of Moray, married after 1658 Emilia Balfour
Hon. Francis Stuart of Cullello, Fife
Hon. Archibald Stuart of Dunearn, Fife, Governor of Stirling Castle, married in 1669 Anna Henderson, daughter of Sir John Henderson, 5th of Fordell and wife Margaret Menteith, and had:
*Charles Stuart, married Jean Hamilton, daughter of Alexander Hamilton and had issue: James, Jean and Mary
* Margaret Stuart, married firstly to Sir Archibald Stewart, 2nd Baronet, of Burray, and had issue, and married secondly to David Leslie, 5th Lord Lindores, without issue
Lady Margaret Stuart, married in 1654 Sir Alexander Sutherland, 1st Lord Duffus, and had issue
Lady Henrietta Stuart, married in 1662 Sir Hugh Campbell of Calder, whose daughter, Margaret married Hugh Rose, 15th of Kilravock and was the mother of Hugh Rose, 16th of Kilravock. Their other daughter was Anne, who married Murdoch MacLean, 13th of Lochbuie in November 1705. This couple had a daughter, Margaret, who married Donald Campbell, of Airds in 1729. They are the great-grandparents of Sir John Campbell, of Airds.
Lady Anne Stuart
Lady Anne Stuart, married in 1666 David Ross of Balnagowen
Lady Mary Stuart, married at Canongate, Edinburgh, Midlothian, on 13 May 1650 Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll, and had issue

The Earl and Countess refurbished their house at Donibristle, employing English artisans including painters, Edward Arthur and George Crawford. They installed a fountain with a bronze figure of Mercury. The Countess lived as a widow till 1683, she maintained Moray House in Edinburgh and its gardens, and planted woods at Donibristle.
In 1677 and 1679 there were portraits of "Lord Doune" and Ham House in "Her Grace's Bed Chamber", possibly of this Lord Moray before 1638 as "Lord Doune" or his eldest son, James, also Lord Doune, who married Katherine Tollemache in December 1677. A portrait of Katherine, Lady Doune at Ham was the work of Lodewijk van der Helst. Ham belonged to the earl's brother-in-law, John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale, whose first wife was Lady Anne Home.