Robert Stuart, 11th Lord Blantyre

Major-General Robert Walter Stuart, 11th Lord Blantyre (10 June 1777 – 23 September 1830) was a British Army officer who served throughout the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He was Lord Lieutenant of Renfrewshire between 1820 and 1822, and was appointed a Scottish representative peer between 1806 and 1807.

Biography

Early life Robert Walter Stuart was born in Edinburgh in 1777, the son of Alexander Stuart, 10th Lord Blantyre and his wife the Catharine Lindsay. His brothers were General Sir Patrick Stuart (twin), and Lieutenant-General William Stuart, both of whom also achieved success in the British Army. He succeeded his father as 11th Lord Blantyre, in the Peerage of Scotland, in 1783, aged 6. He was educated at Eton College. He later transferred again, this time to the 7th Dragoons. He fought in the Egyptian campaign led by Lt.-Gen. Sir Ralph Abercromby. He fought in the Pomerania and Zealand campaign of 1807. He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in the 42nd Regiment of Foot.

He was appointed a Companion, Order of the Bath in 1815, and was promoted to the rank of Major General in 1819.

Death Lord Blantyre was killed at Brussels on 23 September 1830 by a Belgian insurrectionist. He was shot by a musket ball when looking from the window of his hotel during the commotions at Brussels which comprised the Belgian Revolution. His will was proven by probate in January 1832, which bequeathed the Blantyre estates to his eldest son and successor, Charles.

Alexander Stuart, Master of Blantyre (1814–1814), died in infancy Catherine Stuart (1815–1872), married William Rashleigh, MP for East Cornwall Frances Mary Stuart (1816–1896) Charles Stuart, 12th Lord Blantyre (1818–1900), who succeeded, and married Lady Evelyn Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, daughter of the 2nd Duke of Sutherland Georgiana Elizabeth Stuart (1821–1904), married Sir Andrew Buchanan, 1st Baronet, without issue Sir William Stuart (1824–1896), diplomat Caroline Henrietta Stuart (1825–1825), died in infancy Walter Rodney Stuart (1826–1838), died in infancy Lieutenant-Colonel James Stuart (1827–1870), military officer Henry Stuart (1830–1842), twin, died in infancy Caroline Stuart (1830–1911), twin, married John Ogilvy-Grant, 7th Earl of Seafield, and was the mother of the 8th Earl of Seafield