Charles Stuart de Rothesay Collection of Maps, 1715-1840

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Charles Stuart de Rothesay Collection of Maps, 1715-1840

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Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay (1779-1845) was a member of the British diplomatic service (1808-45). He served as joint chargé d'affaires at Madrid (1808), envoy to Portugal (1810), minister at the Hague (1815-16), ambassador to Paris (1815-30), and ambassador to St. Petersburg (1841-45). He made G.C.B. and a privy councillor in 181, and was created Baron Stuart de Rothesay of the Isle of Bute in 1828. The collection contains some 530 maps collected while Baron Stuart served with the British diplomatic service, and the Baron's library catalog.

51 boxes (25.5 linear ft.); 5 oversize boxes

University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.

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Stuart de Rothesay, Charles Stuart, Baron, 1779-1845

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Scottish nobleman and English ambassador to France (1815-1830), and Russia (1841-1845). From the description of Papers, 1785-1855. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 62684765 Charles Stuart, Baron de Rothesay was a Scottish nobleman who attended Eton. Early in his career he acted as a secret agent in Spain and Portugal. His first ambassadorial post was in the Netherlands in 1815. The following fifteen years he served as ambassador in France when Pari...