Charles Stuart, 12th Lord Blantyre, DL (21 December 1818 – 15 December 1900),[1] styled Master of Blantyre from birth until 1830, was a Scottish nobleman and landowner with 14,100 acres (57 km2) of titled lands.[2]
Born at Lennoxlove House, he was the second son of Maj.-Gen. Robert Stuart, 11th Lord Blantyre and his wife Frances Mary, the second daughter of the Hon. John Rodney, younger son of Admiral George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney.[3] In 1830 at the age of only twelve, he succeeded his father as Lord Blantyre.[2] Stuart entered the British Army and was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards.[4] He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Renfrewshire in 1845 and was elected a Scottish representative peer in 1850.[5]
On 4 October 1843 at Trentham, Staffordshire, Blantyre married Lady Evelyn, the second daughter of George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland, and had by her five daughters and a son, Walter, who predeceased him.[6]
Lord Blantyre's wife died in Nice in 1869 and he survived her until 1900, dying aged 81 at Erskine House, which subsequently became Erskine Hospital (now a hotel, renamed Mar Hall).[4] The Lordship of Blantyre became extinct on his death.
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