James Stuart-Wortley (Liberal politician)

James Stuart-Wortley (Liberal politician)

James Archibald Stuart-Wortley, PC, QC (3 July 180522 August 1881) was a British politician. The youngest son of James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 1st Baron Wharncliffe, he was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. He became a barrister at the Inner Temple in 1831, rising to be a Queen's Counsel in 1841. He was a fellow of Merton College, Oxford.

On 6 May 1846 he married Jane Lawley (d.1900), daughter of Lord Wenlock. They had two sons and five daughters: [cite web | title=Theroff's Online Gotha | url=http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/bute.html | accessdate=2006-11-30]
*Mary Caroline Stuart-Wortley (10 May 184818 April 1941), married in London on 30 December 1880 Ralph King-Milbanke, 2nd Earl of Lovelace
*Archibald John Stuart-Wortley (27 May 184911 October 1905), married in 1883 Eleanor Edith Bromley (d. 1939)
*Charles Beilby Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Stuart of Wortley (15 September 185124 April 1926)
*Margaret Jane Stuart-Wortley (d. 6 October 1937), married on 8 May 1877 Sir Reginald Chetwynd-Talbot, son of Henry Chetwynd-Talbot, 18th Earl of Shewsbury
*Blanche Georgina Stuart-Wortley (d. 7 July 1931), married on 26 February 1895 Frederick Firebrace (d. 1917)
*Caroline Susan Theodora Stuart-Wortley (d. 7 August 1940), married on 25 June 1881 Norman de l'Aigle Grosvenor, son of Robert Grosvenor, 1st Baron Ebury
*Katharine Sarah Stuart-Wortley (d. 27 March 1943), married on 1 October 1883 Gen. Sir Neville Lyttelton, son of George Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton

In 1846, he was sworn a Privy Counsellor. He held office as Solicitor General for England and Wales under Lord Palmerston from November 1856 until May 1857.

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