Biography

Keith Stewart. (1739-1795)

Of Glasserton. Son of Alexander Stewart, 6th Earl of Galloway and Catherine Cochrane. Brother of John Stewart and Catherine Stewart. Married (1782) to Georgiana Isabella D'Aguilar. A Captain in 1762 he later reached the high rank of Admiral. In the late 1780s Stewart had acquired enough land to have become one of the largest landowners in Ayrshire. He was also sometime Receiver General of the Land Tax for Scotland.

His father's mother was Catherine Montgomerie (d. 1757), sister of the 10th Lord Eglinton. (Link)

Life with James Boswell:

Boswell went with Stewart and Stewart's brother-in-law James Murray to a sermon in St. Johns Church on 19/12-62.

In 1789 Boswell was involved, with Stewart and Thomas Miller, in a dispute over the relocation of a tollbar in the parish of Muirkirk (Link). They also met each other, coincidentally, in Italy and Toulon during Boswell's Grand Tour (1765). Stewart seems to have been in active service in the Mediterranean as a naval captain at the time, and he warned Boswell about going to Corsica when they met in Florence.

External links:

• Keith Stewart at thePeerage.com
• Stewart family tree - from Stirnet

This article was last updated at February 07 2008 15:31:11 CET

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