John Stewart, Earl of Carrick

For the John Stewart, Earl of Carrick who later became King of Scots, see Robert III of Scotland.

Carrick House on Eday, built by the Earl of Carrick.

John Stewart, Earl of Carrick, Lord Kinclaven (died c. 1645) was a Scottish nobleman, the third son of Robert, Earl of Orkney, a bastard son of King James V.

Stewart was soon linked with the widow "Mistress Southwell". In November 1604 he fought Thomas Somerset, a son of the Earl of Worcester in the Balloon Court at Whitehall Palace. He was confined to his chamber and Somerset was sent to the Fleet Prison.[1]

  1. ^ Edmund Lodge, Illustrations of British History, vol. 3 (London, 1838), pp 89, 108-9, Lodge mistakes the identity of the "Master of Orkney".