John Crichton-Stuart
(2nd Marquess of Bute)

1793 - 1848

Entrepreneur. His father, also John (1767 - 1794), died at the age of 27 and therefore never inherited the Marquessate, thus Bute succeeded his grandfather in 1814. His mother was a Crichton, who was the heiress of the Earldom of Dumfries and thus the family name was augmented. Crichton-Stuart developed coal-mining on the family estates in Wales and built Cardiff docks, turning what had been a relatively small agricultural town into a major sea-port. He is remembered in the name Butetown, a district of Cardiff.

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