Adam between 1765 and 1767 for Bute, who, however, sold it before completion to Shelburne for 22,000l.
Sir Joshua Reynolds painted portraits of Bute in 1763 and 1773, and of Lady Bute in 1777 and 1779 (Leslie and Taylor, Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1865, i. 221, ii. 203, 279, 281). The later portrait of Bute, which has been reproduced as a frontispiece to the second volume of Walpole's ‘History of the Reign of George III’ (ed. Barker, 1894), is in the possession of the Earl of Wharncliffe at Wortley. There are engravings of Bute by Watson, Graham, and Ryland, after Ramsay (see Hist. MSS. Comm. 10th Rep. pt. i. p. 360).
Bute purchased for his own library ‘the Thomason collection’ of pamphlets published during the Commonwealth [see Thomason, George], but he subsequently sold it to the king, who presented this valuable collection, now better known as the ‘King's Tracts,’ to the British Museum in 1763 (Annual Register, 1763, p. 11; Edwards, Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, 1870, pt. i. pp. 330–3). Bute's collection of prints, a part of his library, and duplicates of his natural history collection were sold after his death (see catalogues of sales preserved in the British Museum, press mark 1255, c. 15. 1–3). The Public Record Office and the British Museum possess a number of Bute's despatches and letters, and many of the latter are contained in the Lansdowne and other manuscript collections, calendared in the reports of the historical manuscripts commission (cf. 3rd, 9th, 10th, 12th, and 13th Reps. App.). A few manuscripts chiefly relating to botanical subjects, apparently in Bute's handwriting, are in the possession of the present Marquis of Bute (Hist. MSS. Comm. 3rd Rep. p. 208, see also p. 202). In or about 1785 Bute, at the cost of some 12,000l., privately engraved twelve copies of ‘Botanical Tables, containing the different Familys of British Plants, distinguish'd by a few obvious Parts of Fructification rang'd in a Synoptical Method.’ &c. (London, 4to, 9 vols.). A collection of the contents of this rare work is given in Dryander's ‘Catalogue’ (iii. 132–3), while the original disposition of the twelve copies is duly noted in the copy in the Banksian Library at the British Museum. Another privately printed work, called ‘The Tabular Distribution of British Plants’ (1787), in two parts—the first containing the genera, the second the species—is sometimes attributed to Bute.
[Authorities quoted in the text; Lord Albemarle's Memoirs of the Marquis of Rockingham, 1851, vol. i.; Dodington's Diary, 1784; Walpole's Letters, 1857–9; The History of the Late Minority, 1766; Burke's Works (1815), vol. ii.; Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, 1887; Diaries and Correspondence of the Rt. Hon. George Rose, 1860, ii. 188–92; Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, 1807, i. 206, 211–14; Extracts from the Correspondence of Richard Richardson, 1835, pp. 406–7; Lord Mahon's Hist. of England, 1858, vols. iv–vi.; Massey's Hist. of England, 1855, vol. i.; Jesse's Memoirs of the Life and Reign of George III, 1867; Earle's English Premiers, 1871, i. 156–84; Georgian Era, 1832, i. 307–9; Cunningham and Wheatley's London Past and Present, 1891, i. 14, 80, 163, 438; Calendar of State Papers, Home Office, 1760–5, 1766–9, 1770–2; Collins's Peerage of England, 1812, ii. 575–9; Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, 1813, i. 284–90; G. E. C[okayne]'s Complete Peerage, ii. 91–2, v. 409–10; Foster's Peerage, 1883, p. 107; Foster's Members of Parliament, Scotland, 1882, pp. 322, 324, 326, 327, 328; Gent. Mag. 1736 p. 487, 1748 p. 147, 1750 p. 477, 1763 p. 487, 1792, i. 284–5, 1794 ii. 1061, 1099, 1851 ii. 324; Notes and Queries, 3rd ser. vii. 181, 6th ser. x. 89, 175, 7th ser. ix. 230; Martin's Bibliogr. Cat. of Privately Printed Books, 1854, pp. 96–8; Haydn's Book of Dignities, 1890.]
STUART, Sir JOHN (1759–1815), lieutenant-general, count of Maida, colonel of the 20th foot, son of Colonel John Stuart, was born in Georgia, North America, in 1759.
Stuart's father, John Stuart (1700?–1779), was born about 1700. He went to America in 1733 with General James E. Oglethorpe, and was in Fort Loudoun during the French war when it was invested by the Cherokee Indians. He made terms with Oconostota, who, having agreed that the garrison should march out with their arms and have free passage to Virginia, treacherously massacred them on the way; but Stuart, who was popular with the Indians, was saved. In 1763 he was appointed general agent and superintendent of Indian affairs for the southern department. He had a deputy with each tribe, and exerted great influence over the southern Indians. He took a prominent part on the royalist side in the war of independence, and, returning to England, died in 1779. His property in America was confiscated by the American government in 1782.
Educated at Westminster school, young Stuart obtained a commission as ensign in the 3rd foot guards on 7 Aug. 1778, and joining the battalion, then serving in the army under Sir Henry Clinton at New York, took part in the operations against the colonists in the war of American independence. He was present at the siege and capture of Charleston on 6 May 1780, and remained in South Carolina with the force under Lord
