John Crichton-Stuart, 6th Marquess of Bute, KBE

Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...

 (27 February 1933 – 22 July 1993) was the son of the 5th Marquess of Bute

John Crichton-Stuart, 5th Marquess of Bute

John Crichton-Stuart, 5th Marquess of Bute was the son of John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute and Augusta Bellingham....

 and the former Lady Eileen Forbes (daughter of the 8th Earl of Granard

Bernard Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard

Bernard Arthur William Patrick Hastings Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard KP, GCVO, PC , known as Viscount Forbes from 1874 to 1889, was an Anglo-Irish soldier and Liberal politician.-Background:...

).

On 19 April 1955, he married, firstly, Beatrice Nicola Grace Weld-Forester, and they divorced in 1977. They had four children:

• Lady Sophia Crichton-Stuart (born 27 February 1956)
• Lady Eileen Crichton-Stuart (21 February 1957 – 1984)
• John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute
  John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute
  John Colum Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute , styled Earl of Dumfries before 1993 and from this courtesy title usually known as Johnny Dumfries, is a Scottish peer and a former racing driver. He does not use his title and prefers to be known solely as John Bute...
  
   (born 26 April 1958)
• Lord Anthony Crichton-Stuart
  Anthony Crichton-Stuart
  Lord Anthony Crichton-Stuart is an art historian, and former head of old master paintings at Christie's in New York, where he worked from 1991 until 2006. He is now an independent art dealer in New York, specialising in Old Master Paintings. He, and his wife Alison, have three children; Flora...
  
   (born 14 May 1961)

He married, secondly, Jennifer Home-Rigg-Percy in 1978.