Bute, John Stuart, third Earl of, statesman, born of an old Scotch family; Secretary of State, and from May 1762 to April 1763 Prime Minister under George III., over whom he had a great influence; was very unpopular as a statesman, his leading idea being the supremacy of the king; spent the last 24 years of his life in retirement, devoting himself to literature and science (1712‒1792).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Bute * Bute, Marquis of