John Stuart, Lord Mount Stuart
Colonel John Stuart, Lord Mount Stuart was a British Tory politician and militia officer who represented Cardiff in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1790 to 1794.
Mount Stuart was the son of the John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute, and the grandson of Prime Minister John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute. His mother was the Hon. Charlotte Jane, daughter and heiress of Herbert Windsor, 2nd Viscount Windsor. He was born at Grosvenor Square, London, in 1767 and educated at Eton and St John's College, Cambridge.
In 1790, he was elected Member of Parliament for Cardirff, a seat he held until his death. He took over from his father as colonel of the Glamorgan Militia in 1791 and was also Lord-Lieutenant of Glamorganshire between 1793 and his death.
Lord Mount Stuart married Lady Elizabeth McDouall-Crichton, daughter of Patrick McDouall-Crichton, 6th Earl of Dumfries, and his wife Margaret, on 12 October 1792. They had two sons, who both added the surname "Crichton" before that of "Stuart" in 1805:
- John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute
- Lord Patrick James Herbert Crichton-Stuart. In 1817 he obtained the rank of the son of a Marquess, which his father would have been, had he not died before his father, the 1st Marquess.