(1747 - 1818), 2nd s. of 3rd E. of Bute [S]; educ. di Graffiani's Academy, London, and Edinburgh U. 1766; m. 1767 Margaret Cunynghame; MP 1768 - 1802, 1806 - 7; lt.-col. 92 Ft. 1779 - 83; suc. mo. 1794 to Wortley estates, taking name of Wortley 1795; assumed name of Mackenzie on uncle's death 1800.
1794 - 5 [Munich, Mar. 1793; Verona (20 Apr. 1794)] Naples (by 5 Dec. 1794), Rome (by 28 Mar. 1795), Venice (13 May), Milan
Colonel Stuart and his wife travelled with their daughters Mary (d. 1855) and Louisa Harcourt. They were in Naples by 5 December 1794,1 and were next in Rome, where Cardinal G.F. Albani gave them a letter of introduction, dated 28 March 1795, to his nephew Prince Albani in Milan.2 On 13 May 1795 'Millord Stuard, Consorte e 2 Figli' were in Venice.3 In August 1795 Lady Plymouth wrote that they were, or had recently been, in Rome.4
He was, possibly, the James Stuart whom Adam Ferguson had met in Munich by March 1793,5 and the 'Giacomo Stuardo' in Verona on 20 April 1794.6
1. Morning Chronicle, 10 Jan. 1795. 2. Hippisley corr.MSS. 3. ASV is 774. 4. To Ld. G. Bruce, 30 Aug. 1795 (note by F. Russell). 5. Corr. of Adam Ferguson, ed. V. Merolle, 2:357. 6. ASV is 770.