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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the 1st earl of Guilford (1762-90) and the marquess of Bute (1843-8). 48 e.g. P.R.O., PROB 11/80, f. 161v.; PROB …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Maria and her husband John Crichton-Stuart, marquess of Bute, evidently under some arrangement between Maria and her … was built in 1844-5 on a site provided by the marquess of Bute. It comprised a single cell with a bellcot and a vestry, …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… scenery; to the north, are the islands of Cumbraes, the Bute bills, and the Argyllshire mountains, with the summit of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… gns. from the high steward for holding the sessions. Lord Bute ceased to pay the fee after the passing of the Reform … where the purchaser is said to have been the Marquess of Bute; cf. Banbury Public Libr., Potts colln. xi, p. 42 where …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the nonelectors rioted. 42 In 1827 John, Marquess of Bute, who had married the eldest daughter of George Augustus, … interest in Banbury as the Norths had done. In 1830 Lord Bute secured the election of his cousin Henry Villiers … it, 44 which outraged the Banbury Reformers. 45 When Lord Bute chose Col. Henry Hely Hutchinson as his candidate for …
Old and New London
… Adam, the architect of the Adelphi, for John, Earl of Bute, the favourite Premier of George III. in his early days. … and Spain to a close by the Treaty of Fontainebleau, Lord Bute suddenly threw up the reins of government, and retired … "was the only minister who did not fear the people." Lord Bute was known to be, or at all events to have been, a poor …
Old and New London
… rivals was Smeaton, the great engineer (a proteg of Lord Bute's), and Dr. Johnson's friend, Gwynn, well known for his … the City solicitor, an apt scribbler and a friend of Lord Bute, who no doubt favoured his young countryman. For, being … and afterwards turned gentleman farmer in the Isle of Bute. He began writing for the Times about 1815, and, it is …
Cardiff Records
… Railway Co., to prevent the leakage of the bridge crossing Bute Street. 13 a year is to be allowed the Clerk for … to be put up within 21 days. Notice is to be served on the Bute Trustees, to make a covered drain of the open ditch on the west side of Bute Road. A pavement is to be laid down in the Hayes, by …
A New History of London
… as the Scots themselves confess, the earl of Bute, a Scots nobleman of reserved deportment, and of … of the secretaries of state, was superseded by the earl of Bute. Mr. Pitt, whose expensive management had at least been … hats and handkerchiefs to him as he passed. The earl of Bute did not pass unnoticed, though the salutations he …
A New History of London
… additional seeds of discontent. The very day of lord Bute's appointment as first commissioner of the treasury, a … his situation had induced him to pay his court to lord Bute during his administration, to obtain the government of … the loss of several hundreds of pounds; the houses of lord Bute, lord Egmont, Sir Sampson Gideon, Sir William Mayne, and …