John Crichton-Stuart, 5th Marquess of Bute (4 August 1907 – 14 August 1956 ), was the son of John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute, and Augusta Bellingham.

Marriage and children

On 26 April 1932, he married Lady Eileen Beatrice Forbes (1912–1993), a daughter of Bernard Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard, by his wife Beatrice Mills, an American socialite who was the daughter of Ogden Mills. They had four children:

Interests

The Marquess was an expert ornithologist; in 1931 he bought the islands of St Kilda to preserve them as a bird sanctuary, leaving them to the National Trust for Scotland in 1956. In 1953, the Marchioness of Bute and Lady St David's Fund was set up to encourage and support women to train as nurses and midwives in south Wales.