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]
Hon. Mary Stuart (15 September 1845 – 21 November 1910), unmarried.
Hon. Ellen Stuart (31 August 1846 –19 April 1927), who married
Sir David Baird, 3rd Baronet and together had six children. Their son inherited the Blantyre estates in 1900.
Capt. Hon. Walter Stuart, Master of Blantyre (17 July 1851 – 15 March 1895), unmarried. After expeditions in North America, he settled at
Glenelg. A renowned figure in the Highlands, he predeceased his father without issue. A biography, The Master of Blantyre (1895) by Catherine Marsh, was published in his honour.[7]Walter Stuart, Master of Blantyre
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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abWho was Who, 1897–1916. London: Adam & Charles Black Ltd. 1920. p. 69.
^Dod, Robert P. (1860). The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Whitaker and Co. p. 121.
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abCokayne, George Edward (1912). Vicary Gibbs (ed.). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. Vol. II. London: The St Catherine Press Ltd. pp. 185–186.