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unusual facts about Charles Stuart, 1st Earl of Lennox



Bute Inlet

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

Charles Stuart, 1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay

By 1830 he had purchased much of the eastern end of the estate, at Highcliffe, Dorset.

Charles Stuart, Duke of Kendal

He was designated Duke of Kendal and was to have been created Duke of Kendal, Earl of Wigmore and Baron of Holdenby, but no patent was ever enrolled.

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.

Margaret Douglas

In 1574 she again aroused Elizabeth's anger by marrying her younger son, Charles, to Elizabeth Cavendish, the stepdaughter of the Earl of Shrewsbury.


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