Augusta Crichton-Stuart, Marchioness of Bute


Augusta Mary Monica Crichton-Stuart, Marchioness of Bute, , was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat who was a daughter of Sir Henry Bellingham, 4th Baronet, and Lady Constance Julia Eleanor Georgiana Noel, daughter of Charles Noel, 2nd Earl of Gainsborough.

Marriage and children

On 6 July 1905, she married John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute, son of John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, and Hon. Gwendolen Mary Anne Fitzalan-Howard. Their wedding was held at Castle Bellingham, in the village of Castlebellingham in County Louth, Ireland, and was followed by a party at Mount Stuart House in Scotland. A film company was hired to film the event; and it served as one of the earliest examples of the aristocratic classes making a private film.
Both her father and her father-in-law were noted converts to Roman Catholicism.
After her marriage, Augusta Bellingham was styled as The Marchioness of Bute and her married name became Crichton-Stuart. She and her husband had seven children.
During the First World War, the marchioness opened up the family home at Mount Stuart as a military hospital. She herself trained to carry out nursing duties, at the Scottish General Hospital at Stobhill.
In recognition of her services, she was invested as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1918. She was also invested as a Dame of Grace, Order of St. John of Jerusalem, and decorated with the Médaille de la Reine Elisabeth of Belgium.

Death

Lord Bute died on 25 April 1947, aged 65. Lady Bute followed almost a month later on 16 May 1947, aged 66.