James Stuart, 8th Earl of Moray

The Right Honourable The Earl of Moray KT
Tenure	1739 to 1767
Predecessor	Francis Stuart, 7th Earl of Moray (1673-1739)
Successor	Sir Francis Stuart, 9th Earl of Moray (1737-1810)
Born	James Stuart 1708
Died	5 July 1767
Nationality	Scots
Residence	Darnaway Castle
Locality	Moray
Offices	Scottish representative peer 1741 to 1767 Grand Master, Masonic Grand Lodge of Scotland 1744-1745
Spouse(s)	Grace Lockhart (1706-1738) Margaret Wemyss (died 1779)
Issue	Francis (1737-1810), James (1741-1809), David (died 1784)
Parents	Francis Stuart, 7th Earl of Moray (1673-1739) Jean Elphinstone (1682-1739)

James Stuart, 8th Earl of Moray, KT (1708 – 5 July 1767) was a Scottish nobleman. He was the son of Francis Stuart, 7th Earl of Moray. In 1741, he was elected as one of the 16 Scottish representative peers who sat in the post-1707 British House of Lords, a position he retained until his death.

Life

James Stuart was born in 1708

In 1734, James married Grace Lockhart (1706–1738), granddaughter of the 9th Earl of Eglington and widow of 3rd Earl of Aboyne. Before her death in 1738, they had two children, Francis, (1737–1810), who succeeded as Earl of Moray, and Euphemia (1738–1771). He married again in 1740, this time to Margaret Wemyss, eldest daughter of the Earl of Wemyss; they had two sons, Lt-Colonel James Stuart (1741–1809), ^[a] and Lieutenant (RN) David Stuart (1745–1784).^[b][1]

In 1755 he purchased Balmerino House in Leith from the Crown who had confiscated the house due to Lord Balmerino's active support of the Jacobite Rebellion.^[2]

Footnotes

1. Captain, 20th Foot, 1762; Lieutenant-Colonel Sutherland Fencibles, 1793 ; deputy-governor of Fort George, 1777 ; Captain, North British Veteran Battalion, 1803; Died at Fort George 4 May 1808
2. Died Budleigh Salterton, Devon, 12 June 1784

References

1. Debrett 1825, p. 707.
2. Cassell's Old and New Edinburgh; vol. 6, ch. 24

Sources

• Debrett, John, ed. (1825). Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland: Vol II. J Moyes, London.

Masonic offices
Preceded by 5th Earl of Wemyss	Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland 1744–1745	Succeeded by 10th Earl of Buchan
Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by Francis Stuart	Earl of Moray 1746–1767	Succeeded by Francis Stuart