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1:...ied without sons, and the disputed claim over the Earldom was resolved by the [[House of Lords]] in 1878...
1:...the Crichton family until the death of the fourth earl in 1758, at which point the title passed to first...
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 Bute, John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquis of Bute -
He was sent to Harrow, where he won prizes for English and Latin verse, and then to Christ Church College, Oxford.
He was mayor of Cardiff and provost of Rothesay, lord lieutenant of Bute, president of the University of Wales Cardiff, rector of St. Andrews University and benefactor of St. Andrews and Glasgow universities, among others.
He was a convert to Catholicism, and was the model for the central character in Disraeli's novel Lothair.
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 Scottish Lute Manuscripts
We have no difficulty in recognizing the individual to whom this "Good-night" related to have been Robert Crichton, Lord Sanquhar, an accomplished nobleman, who was executed at London, in 1612, for the murder of Turner, a fencing-master.
On Monday, 4th June 1610, Prince Henry, then in his sixteenth year, was created Prince of Wales with extraordinary pomp and solemnity.
My Lord Dingwalls Currand; SKMS V #16/ Not trans.:
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