John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (/ bjuːt /; 25 May 1713 – 10 March 1792), styled Lord Mount Stuart between 1713 and 1723, was a British nobleman who served as the Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1762 to 1763 under King George III.

John Stuart, 3rd earl of Bute (born May 25, 1713, Edinburgh, Scot.—died March 10, 1792, London, Eng.) was a Scottish royal favourite who dominated King George III of Great Britain during the first five years of his reign.

John Stuart, Earl of Bute, was a favourite of George III. He was the King’s tutor in the 1750s and rose quickly to high political office after George’s accession in 1760. Bute faced the...

John Stuart, third Earl of Bute, who served as Prime Minister from 26 May 1762 to 8 April 1763, was educated at Eton and the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, where he was awarded a Degree in civil and public law. He did not undertake the …

BUTE, JOHN STUART, THIRD EARL OF. (1713–1792). British prime minister. John Stuart was born in Edinburgh on 25 May 1713 and inherited his father's earldom on 23 January 1723. He was educated at Eton (1724–1728) and at Leiden, where he graduated in 1732. For some years he lived quietly on his estates, raising a family and studying botany.

Jan 28, 2015 · John Stuart, third Earl of Bute, was a Scottish aristocrat who rose, through his royal connections to a position of political pre-eminence. Bute was born in Edinburgh on 25 May 1713. Bute’s...

Lord Bute was born John Stuart into Scottish aristocracy in 1713. He was known as Lord Mount Stuart in his first ten years. He succeeded to the Earldom of Bute in 1723. He attended Eton College, and then studied law at the Dutch universities of Groningen and Leiden.

The British statesman John Stuart, 3d Earl of Bute (1713-1792), served as prime minister under George III, over whom he exercised an unpopular influence. John Stuart was born in Edinburgh of aristocratic Scottish parents.

BUTE, John Stuart, third Earl of (1713-1792), for a brief time prime minister of England, was born in 1713, and was educated at Eton. Horace Walpole, who was one of his contemporaries there, tells us that Bute "studied simples in the hedges about Twickenham."

Scottish statesman John Stuart, 3rd earl of Bute, was a favorite of King George III of Great Britain and dominated the first five years of his reign (1760–1820). Serving as British prime minister in 1762–63, Bute negotiated the peace ending the Seven Years’ War (1756–63) with France, but he failed to create a stable administration.