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3 unusual facts about 1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay


Bute Inlet

His grandson Charles Stuart was a master's mate on Vancouver's Discovery.

Henry Beresford, 3rd Marquess of Waterford

In 1842, Lord Waterford married Louisa Stuart, daughter of the 1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay, and settled in Curraghmore House in Ireland, and reportedly led an exemplary life, until he died in a horse riding accident in 1859.

Highcliffe

Between 1831 and 1835, Lord Stuart de Rothesay built a Gothic Revival home Highcliffe Castle on the site of High Cliff house, his father's Georgian estate.



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