John Crichton-Stuart

Born the eldest son to the first Marquis of Bute he attended Eton and then Cambridge then travelled with his paternal grandfather to France and Russia sustaining an eye injury that would continue to affect him for life. He took a keen interest in land management, working closely with his estate managers and largely shunned fashionable society due to his injury. He moved between his estates, which in total amounted to one hundred thousand acres. His landholding in Dowlaid ironworks would be extemely profitable being the fourth largest globally, making his son in the late nineteenth century the largest individual reciever of mineral royalties. This wealth was also poured into other ventures such as the construction of Cardiff dock in 1839 which by the end of the century handled more coal than anywhere in the world. The Marquess was also Lord Lieitenant of Glamorgan and Bute from 1815 until his death as well as colonel of the Glamorgan militia. His honors included FRS in 1818, DCL from Oxford in 1834, LLD from Cambridge in 1835, FSA in 1838 and KT in 1843. He married twice, with his first childless and his second providing him with a male heir to the estates. He was against the catholic emancipation.