Charles Stuart, 12th Lord Blantyre

Charles Stuart, 12th Lord Blantyre, DL (21 December 1818 – 15 December 1900),[1] styled Master of Blantyre from birth until 1830, was a Scottish nobleman and landowner with 14,100 acres (57 km2) of titled lands.

[2] Born at Lennoxlove House, he was the second son of Maj.-Gen. Robert Stuart, 11th Lord Blantyre and his wife Frances Mary, the second daughter of the Hon.

[2] Stuart entered the British Army and was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards.

[4] He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Renfrewshire in 1845 and was elected a Scottish representative peer in 1850.

[6] Lord Blantyre's wife died in Nice in 1869 and he survived her until 1900, dying aged 81 at Erskine House, which subsequently became Erskine Hospital (now a hotel, renamed Mar Hall).