| Honorific-Prefix: | Captain The Right Honourable |
| The Viscount Stuart of Findhorn | |
| Order1: | Secretary of State for Scotland |
| Term Start1: | 30 October 1951 |
| Term End1: | 9 January 1957 |
| Primeminister1: | Winston Churchill Sir Anthony Eden |
| Predecessor1: | Hector McNeil |
| Successor1: | John Maclay |
| Office2: | Chief Whip of the House of Commons Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury |
| Primeminister2: | Winston Churchill |
| Term Start2: | 14 January 1941 |
| Term End2: | 26 July 1945 |
| Alongside2: | Charles Edwards and William Whiteley |
| Predecessor2: | Charles Edwards |
| Successor2: | William Whiteley |
| Office5: | Lord Commissioner of the Treasury |
| Primeminister5: | Ramsay MacDonald Stanley Baldwin Neville Chamberlain Winston Churchill |
| Term Start5: | 1 May 1935 |
| Term End5: | 14 January 1941 |
| Predecessor5: | Lambert Ward |
| Successor5: | Thomas Dugdale |
| Office6: | Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |
| Term Start6: | 20 November 1959 |
| Term End6: | 20 February 1971 Hereditary Peerage |
| Predecessor6: | Peerage created |
| Successor6: | The 2nd Viscount Stuart of Findhorn |
| Office7: | Member of Parliament for Moray and Nairn |
| Term Start7: | 6 December 1923 |
| Term End7: | 8 October 1959 |
| Predecessor7: | Thomas Maule Guthrie |
| Successor7: | Gordon Campbell |
| Birth Date: | 9 February 1897 |
| Birth Place: | Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Nationality: | British |
| Party: | Unionist |
| Children: | 3 |
James Gray Stuart, 1st Viscount Stuart of Findhorn, (9 February 1897 – 20 February 1971) was a British Unionist politician. He was joint-Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury in Winston Churchill's war-time coalition government and later served as Secretary of State for Scotland under Churchill and then Sir Anthony Eden from 1951 to 1957. In 1959 he was elevated to the peerage as Viscount Stuart of Findhorn.
Born in Edinburgh, Stuart was the third and youngest son of Morton Stuart, 17th Earl of Moray, and Edith Douglas Palmer, daughter of Rear-Admiral George Palmer.
Shortly after the outbreak of World War I Stuart was commissioned from the Officers' Training Corps into the Special Reserve as a probationary Second lieutenant in the 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, Royal Scots (his probation completed in Jan 1915) and served in the war, reaching the rank of Captain. He was awarded the Military Cross and Bar in 1917.
He was appointed Equerry to HRH Prince Albert in June 1920, and was appointed a Member (4th Class) of the Royal Victorian Order in the 1922 New Year Honours, with the award dated 3 Dec 1921.
Stuart sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Moray and Nairn from 1923 to 1959. He served as a Lord of the Treasury from 1935 to 1941 under successively Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill and was sworn of the Privy Council in the 1939 Birthday Honours. In 1941 Churchill promoted him to joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Government Chief Whip), which he remained until 1945. He continued as Conservative Chief Whip until 1948. In 1950 he became Chairman of the Scottish Unionist Party, a post he held until 1962.
When the Conservatives returned to power under Churchill in 1951, Stuart was made Secretary of State for Scotland, with a seat in the cabinet. He continued in this post until 1957, the last two years under the premiership of Sir Anthony Eden. He was appointed a Companion of Honour in 1957. On 20 November 1959 he was elevated to the peerage as Viscount Stuart of Findhorn, of Findhorn in the County of Moray.
In 1923 Stuart married Lady Rachel Cavendish,[1] daughter of Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire. They had four children:
Stuart's sister-in-law Dorothy Cavendish was the wife of Harold Macmillan.
Stuart died in February 1971, aged 74, and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his elder son. His widow died in October 1977.
Before his marriage, Stuart had been noted as a suitor of Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon while serving as an equerry to her eventual husband Prince Albert, Duke of York (the future King George VI).
| Escutcheon: | Quarterly 1st Or a lion rampant within a double tressure flory counterflory Gules all within a bordure compony Azure and Argent (Stuart) 2nd Or a fess chequy Azure and Argent (Stewart of Downe) 3rd Or three cushions within a double tressure flory counterflory Gules (Randolph) 4th Gules a lion rampant within a bordure engrailed Argent (Gray) all within a bordure Or for difference. |
| Crest: | In a nest Vert a pelican feeding her young Or about her neck a collar engrailed Gules. |
| Supporters: | Two capercailzie Proper their wings closed. |
| Motto: | Saius Per Christum Redemptorem[2] |