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1713-1792. British Tory politician, prime
minister 1762-63. On the accession of George
III in 1760, he became the chief instrument
in the king's policy for breaking the power
of the Whigs and establishing the personal
rule of the monarch through Parliament. Bute
succeeded his father 1723, and in 1737 was
elected a representative peer for Scotland.
His position as the king's favourite and the
supplanter of the popular prime minister Pitt
the Elder made him hated in the country. He
resigned 1763 after the Seven Years' War.