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Bute

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Bute  (byt)
An island of southwest Scotland in the Firth of Clyde.
Bute1
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(Placename) an island off the coast of SW Scotland, in Argyll and Bute council area: situated in the Firth of Clyde, separated from the Cowal peninsula by the Kyles of Bute. Chief town: Rothesay. Pop.: 8000 (latest est.). Area: 121 sq. km (47 sq. miles)
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(Biographies / Bute, John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713-1792) M, British, POLITICS: statesman, POLITICS: prime minister) John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute. 1713-92, British Tory statesman; prime minister (1762-63)


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One was intended to represent the Earl of Bute, who was supposed to have advised the king to tax America.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
Encamping at the west Bute, they found a place swept by the winds, so that it was bare of snow, and there was abundance of bunch grass.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context
Close by the name of Sir Pitt Crawley, Baronet (the subject of the present memoir), are written that of his brother, the Reverend Bute Crawley (the great Commoner was in disgrace when the reverend gentleman was born), rector of Crawley-cum-Snailby, and of various other male and female members of the Crawley family.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
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