BUTE 44.1 INCHMARNOCK [S.] to him and his heirs male whatsoever. He after- wards, however, opposed the Union, and absented himself from Pari, when it was carried. He «;., istly (cont. dat. 24 July 1680), Agnes, ist da. of (the learned) Sir George Mackenzie, of Rosehaugh, King's Advocate, by his 1st wife, Elizabeth, da. of John Dickson, of Hartree, a Lord of Session. She, who was b. 2 Jan. 1663, was bu7: 26 July 1696, in the Greyfriars, Edinburgh. Hew., 2ndly, Christian, da. and coh. of William Dundas, of Kincavel, Advocate. He d. at Bath, Somerset, 4 June 17 10, and was bur. at Rothesay. M.I. His widow d. at Edinburgh, 25, and was bur. 30 May 1740, in the Carmelite monastery at Queensferry.Q II, 1 7 10. 2. James (Stuart), Earl of Bute, i^c. [S.], s. and h. by 1st wife. On the death of his maternal uncle, George Mackenzie, of Rosehaugh, he, after great litigation, sue. to and retained possession of the extensive estates of his maternal grandfather. He was a Lord of the Bedchamber 1721 till his death; Lord Lieut, of co. Bute, and Rep. Peer [S.] (Tory), both 1 7 1 5 till his death. He m. (cont. dat. 8 and 19 Feb. 1711) Anne, da. of Archibald (Campbell), ist Duke of Argyll [S.], by Elizabeth Tollemache, da. of Elizabeth, suo jure Countess of Dysart [S.]. He d. 28 Jan. 1722/3, in London, aged 33, and was bur. at Rothesay. Will dat. 5 Jan., pr. 2 May 1723. His widow m., 19 Sep. 1 73 1 , Alexander Eraser, of Strichen, co. Aberdeen, a Lord of Session. She d. 20 Oct. 1736, at Strichen. Ill, 1723. 3. John (Stuart), Earl of Bute, tfc. [S.], s. and h.,C') b. 25 May I7i3,in Parliament Sq., Edinburgh. Ed. at Eton 1720, Rep. Peer [S.] (Tory) 14 Apr. 1737 to 1741, and, again, 1761 to 1780; nom. K.T. 10 July and inv. 15 Aug. 1738, at Holy- rood House; Lord of the Bedchamber to Frederick, Prince of Wales, 1750-51; Groom of the Stole to George, Prince of Wales, 1756-60, and again to him when King, 1760-61; P.C. 27 Oct. 1760; Sec. of State for the North, 25 Mar. 1761 to 29 May 1762; Chancellor of Marischal Coll., Aberdeen, 1761 till his death; Ranger of Richmond Park, 1761 till his death; nom. K.G. 27 May, and inst. 22 Sep. 1762, having previously resigned the Order of the Thistle.('=) First Lord of the (^) She, who was a Jacobite, writes to the titular Duke of Mar, 19 Aug. 17 16, asking him to use his influence with James III to get her title "which she had always looked on as very imperfect" confirmed in favour of herself and the Earl's second son; the then Earl "being entirely out of the practice of all the principles of loyalty." V.G. (•>) His yr. br., the Rt. Hon. James Stuart-Mackenzie, Lord Privy Seal [S.], sue. to the Mackenzie estates, and d. s.p., 6 Apr. 1800, in his 82nd year. (■=) See vol. i, p. 16, note "d," for an account of such Knights of the Thistle, now (19 1 2) 14 in number, exclusive of the Blood Royal, as have been elected to the Garter. 57
