1st Baron Stuart of Wortley, PC. Son of James Archibald Stuart-Wortley and his wife, Jane Beilby (Lawley-Thomson) Stuart-Wortley. He was educated at Rugby and Balliol College, Oxford and called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1876. Served as secretary to the Royal Commission on the Sale of Benefices, Member of Parliament, and Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department. In 1896 he was admitted to the Privy Council (PC). in 1917 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Stuart of Wortley, of the City of Sheffield. Lord Stuart of Wortley married Beatrice, daughter of Thomas and Theodosia Trollope (and niece of the author Anthony Trollope), in 1880. Beatrice died in July 1881 and Stuart married as his second wife Alice Sophia Caroline Millais, daughter of the artist John Everett Millais. He had one daughter by each spouse. As he had no male heir, the Barony became extinct upon his death in 1926.
1st Baron Stuart of Wortley, PC. Son of James Archibald Stuart-Wortley and his wife, Jane Beilby (Lawley-Thomson) Stuart-Wortley. He was educated at Rugby and Balliol College, Oxford and called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1876. Served as secretary to the Royal Commission on the Sale of Benefices, Member of Parliament, and Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department. In 1896 he was admitted to the Privy Council (PC). in 1917 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Stuart of Wortley, of the City of Sheffield. Lord Stuart of Wortley married Beatrice, daughter of Thomas and Theodosia Trollope (and niece of the author Anthony Trollope), in 1880. Beatrice died in July 1881 and Stuart married as his second wife Alice Sophia Caroline Millais, daughter of the artist John Everett Millais. He had one daughter by each spouse. As he had no male heir, the Barony became extinct upon his death in 1926.
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