Stewart of Darnley Stewart of Darnley Stewart of Darnley was a notable Scots family, a branch of the Clan Stewart, who provided the English Stuart monarchs with their male-line Stuart descent, after the reunion of their branch with the royal Scottish branch, which led to the ultimate union of the two main kingdoms of Great Britain: England and Scotland. In 1565 the House of Stewart of Darnley was re-united with the Royal House of Stewart when Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley married his first cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots, both being grandchildren of Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England, and hence
Herbert Darnley 1947. Herbert Darnley Herbert Darnley (12 May 1872 – 1947), real name Herbert Walter McCarthy, was a British music hall comedian, song writer, popular early recording artist and theatrical producer, active from the 1890s until the early 1940s, who claimed descent from Edmund Kean. Herbert was born Herbert Walter McCarthy in Chatham in Kent, England. From the 1890s, Darnley was the major song writer for "The King's jester" Dan Leno. Darnley's "Mr Wix of Wickham" toured in 1902, starting at the Borough Theatre, Stratford in July. It starred Leno in a male lead role as Mr Wix who performed his