John Crichton-Stuart, 5th Marquess of Bute (4 August 1907 – 14 August 1956[1]), was the son of John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute, and Augusta Bellingham.
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: 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.
[2] 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.
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