2 Cardiff Castle Wales June 2013 Library
3rd Marquess of Bute, John Patrick Crichton-Stuart (1847 - 1900) was an amazing man and his life story can be found here...http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35884/35884-h/35884-h.htm#chap03fn10
www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/burges/10library.html
Fireplace by Thomas Nicholls. Moses sits surrounded by figures representing ancient languages: Greek, Assyrian, Hebrew, Egyptian, and Celtic — with Bute himself portrayed as studying Celtic runes at the far right (The Strange Genius, 43). Both the large painted tile mural of Ezekiel in the roof garden and the fact that Moses holds the tablets conventionally signifying the ten commandments might suggest that Moses represents the law and his companions other law givers — Solon, Hammurabi, and so on. In fact, the tablets just contain the Hebrew alphabet and not the ten commandments
The Egyptian Pharaoh holding a tablet with hieroglyphics. Moses rather incongruously depicted as a blond Nordic type. The Assyrian figure, although wearing middle-eastern garments, also has blond hair — the effect of using gold gilt.
"The science of philology (the late Dean Howell wrote) seemed to cost Lord Bute no effort, for he was a born philologist, and appeared to penetrate and solve linguistic difficulties as it were by instinct. Another thing that used to astonish me was his familiarity with, and wide knowledge of, the Authorised Version of the Bible; for at that time (1871) he could not have been more than 23 or 24 years of age. His retentive memory (which I have never seen equalled) enabled him to quote exactly lengthy passages; and if I chanced to quote a Welsh word from Scripture for illustrative purposes, he would give the English rendering of the whole passage from memory with ease and perfect accuracy. His tastes and accomplishments were essentially mediæval; and history, art, and archæology had for him an inexhaustible charm."
www.mountstuart.com/history-and-heritage/bute-family/3rd-...
3rd Marquess of Bute, John Patrick Crichton-Stuart (1847 - 1900)
The 3rd Marquess of Bute was a complex man, and the driving force behind the rebuilding of Mount Stuart into the Victorian Gothic masterpiece it is today. He was less than a year old when he became heir to the enormous wealth his father had accrued. After the death of the 2nd Marquess, he would be cared for by his mother, Lady Sophia, but later came under the joint guardianship of Lady Elizabeth Moore and Colonel Charles Stuart upon her own death in 1859. Disagreeing about his upbringing, his guardians fought for custody, and the case was eventually brought before the House of Lords. They decided in favour of Charles Stuart, who became the sole guardian of the 3rd Marquess in 1861.
When he reached his majority the 3rd Marquess controversially converted to Catholicism, a decision which shocked society and inspired Benjamin Disreali's novel Lothair. But on the whole the 3rd Marquess preferred a private life, in which he was able to indulge his various passions and interests: he was a skilled linguist who was conversant in 21 languages, a scholar who held the office of Rector at St Andrews University from 1892 until 1897, and an architectural patron who embarked upon approximately 60 building projects during his lifetime.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Crichton-Stuart,_3rd_Marquess_...
2 Cardiff Castle Wales June 2013 Library
3rd Marquess of Bute, John Patrick Crichton-Stuart (1847 - 1900) was an amazing man and his life story can be found here...http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35884/35884-h/35884-h.htm#chap03fn10
www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/burges/10library.html
Fireplace by Thomas Nicholls. Moses sits surrounded by figures representing ancient languages: Greek, Assyrian, Hebrew, Egyptian, and Celtic — with Bute himself portrayed as studying Celtic runes at the far right (The Strange Genius, 43). Both the large painted tile mural of Ezekiel in the roof garden and the fact that Moses holds the tablets conventionally signifying the ten commandments might suggest that Moses represents the law and his companions other law givers — Solon, Hammurabi, and so on. In fact, the tablets just contain the Hebrew alphabet and not the ten commandments
The Egyptian Pharaoh holding a tablet with hieroglyphics. Moses rather incongruously depicted as a blond Nordic type. The Assyrian figure, although wearing middle-eastern garments, also has blond hair — the effect of using gold gilt.
"The science of philology (the late Dean Howell wrote) seemed to cost Lord Bute no effort, for he was a born philologist, and appeared to penetrate and solve linguistic difficulties as it were by instinct. Another thing that used to astonish me was his familiarity with, and wide knowledge of, the Authorised Version of the Bible; for at that time (1871) he could not have been more than 23 or 24 years of age. His retentive memory (which I have never seen equalled) enabled him to quote exactly lengthy passages; and if I chanced to quote a Welsh word from Scripture for illustrative purposes, he would give the English rendering of the whole passage from memory with ease and perfect accuracy. His tastes and accomplishments were essentially mediæval; and history, art, and archæology had for him an inexhaustible charm."
www.mountstuart.com/history-and-heritage/bute-family/3rd-...
3rd Marquess of Bute, John Patrick Crichton-Stuart (1847 - 1900)
The 3rd Marquess of Bute was a complex man, and the driving force behind the rebuilding of Mount Stuart into the Victorian Gothic masterpiece it is today. He was less than a year old when he became heir to the enormous wealth his father had accrued. After the death of the 2nd Marquess, he would be cared for by his mother, Lady Sophia, but later came under the joint guardianship of Lady Elizabeth Moore and Colonel Charles Stuart upon her own death in 1859. Disagreeing about his upbringing, his guardians fought for custody, and the case was eventually brought before the House of Lords. They decided in favour of Charles Stuart, who became the sole guardian of the 3rd Marquess in 1861.
When he reached his majority the 3rd Marquess controversially converted to Catholicism, a decision which shocked society and inspired Benjamin Disreali's novel Lothair. But on the whole the 3rd Marquess preferred a private life, in which he was able to indulge his various passions and interests: he was a skilled linguist who was conversant in 21 languages, a scholar who held the office of Rector at St Andrews University from 1892 until 1897, and an architectural patron who embarked upon approximately 60 building projects during his lifetime.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Crichton-Stuart,_3rd_Marquess_...