I. PRIZE POEM (HARROW SCHOOL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 II. HYMN ON ST. MAGNUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 III. HYMN: "OUR LADY OF THE SNOWS" . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238 IV. A PROVOST'S PRAYER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240 V. RECOLLECTIONS. BY SIR R. ROWAND ANDERSON . . . . . . . 241 VI. OBITUARY. BY F. W. H. MYERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 VII. BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 {xiii} LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS JOHN, THIRD MARQUESS OF BUTE ÆT 9, WITH HIS MOTHER _Frontispiece_ _From a Painting by Mountstuart. Photo by F. C. Inglis, Edinburgh._ FACING PAGE THE MARQUESS OF BUTE, ÆT 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 _From a Pencil Drawing by Ross at Cardiff Castle. This Drawing, executed for Lord Bute's great-grand-aunt (then aged 92), daughter of the third Earl, George III's Prime Minister, was left by her to her niece. Lady Ann Damson, whose great-niece, Mrs. Clark of Tal-y-Garn, gave it in 1906 to Augusta, wife of John, fourth Marquess of Bute._ THE MARQUESS OF BUTE, ÆT 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 THE COMMUNION OF ST. MARGARET, QUEEN OF SCOTLAND . . . . . . . 48 CARDIFF CASTLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 CASTELL COCH, GLAMORGAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 THE GREAT HALL, MOUNTSTUART . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 _Photo by Sweet, Rothesay._ FALKLAND PALACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 _Photo by Valentine, Dundee._ FACSIMILE LETTER FROM THE MARQUESS OF BUTE TO MISS SKENE . . . 174 THE MARQUESS OF BUTE AS MAYOR OF CARDIFF . . . . . . . . . . . 176 THE MARQUESS OF BUTE AS LORD RECTOR OF ST. ANDREWS UNIVERSITY. (1892-1897) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 _Photo by Rodger, St. Andrews._ PLUSCARDEN PRIORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 {1} JOHN PATRICK THIRD MARQUESS OF BUTE, K.T. (1847-1900) CHAPTER I EARLY LIFE 1847-1861