[Frontispiece: _John, third Marquess of Bute, with his Mother aet 9 from a picture at Mount Stuart_] Just twenty years have passed away since the death, at the age of little more than fifty, of the subject of this memoir--a period of time not indeed inconsiderable, yet not so long as to render unreasonable the hope that others besides the members of his family (who have long desired that there should be some printed record of his life), and the sadly diminished numbers of his intimate friends, may be interested in learning something of the personality and the career of a man who may justly be regarded as one of the not least remarkable, if one of the least known, figures of the closing year…
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