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Morton Gray Stuart, 17th Earl of Moray

1855 – 1930

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About Morton Gray Stuart, 17th Earl of Moray

Lived 1855 – 1930 (aged 75).

Morton Gray Stuart, 17th Earl of Moray (16 April 1855 – 19 April 1930) was a Scottish peer.

Early life Stuart was born on 16 April 1855. He was the son of the Rev. Edmund Luttrell Stuart and Elizabeth ( Jackson) Stuart. Among his siblings were elder brothers, Edmund Archibald Stuart (who became the 15th Earl of Moray in 1895), and Francis James Stuart (who became the 16th Earl of Moray in 1901). His maternal grandfather was the Rev. J. L. Jackson. and inherited Doune Castle, which had been held by the family since 1570.

Francis Douglas Stuart, 18th Earl of Moray (1892–1943), who married Barbara Murray, daughter of John Archibald Murray, in 1924. daughter of Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire and Lady Evelyn Petty-Fitzmaurice (a daughter of the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne), in 1923. Lady Hermione Moray Stuart (1899–1989), who married Adm. Sir Henry Tritton Buller, son of Adm. Sir Alexander Buller and Emily Mary Tritton, in 1919.

Lord Moray died on 19 April 1930 at age 75 and was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son, Francis. As his eldest son died without male issue in 1943, the earldom passed to his second son, Archibald. His widow, the dowager Lady Moray, died on April 1945.

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Morton Gray Stuart, 17th Earl of Moray was born on 16 April 1855.

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Morton Gray Stuart, 17th Earl of Moray died on 19 April 1930.

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