Old Photograph Kerrycroy Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and fishing boats by the coast in Kerrycroy, Isle of Bute, Scotland. This Scottish village was designed in 1803 as a model village by Maria North, the wife of the 2nd Marquess of Bute in the style of an English village. John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute, born 10 August 1793, died 18 March 1848, styled Lord Mount Stuart between 1794 and 1814, was a wealthy aristocrat and industrialist in Georgian and early Victorian Britain. He developed the coal and iron industries across South Wales and built the Cardiff Docks. He married his first wife, Lady Maria North, in 1818, and together they lived a relatively secluded life in Mount Stuart House in Scotland, one of Bute's four seats. Bute was dour but industrious, with a flair for land management. He focused his daily routine around extensive correspondence with his estate managers, making biennial tours of his lands around the country. The couple did not conceive any children, and Maria died in 1841. Bute remarried four years later, to Lady Sophia Rawdon Hastings, and she gave birth to Bute's only child, John, in 1847.




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