Ravenscroft Stewart

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Ravenscroft Stewart was an eminent Anglican priest in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. [1]

Stewart was born in Newton Stewart on 23 June 1845, educated at Loretto; Uppingham and Trinity College, Cambridge [2] and ordained in 1870. [3] After a curacy in Bakewell he was Rector of Pleasley from 1871 to 1883; Vicar of All Saints Ennismore Gardens [4] from 1884 to 1909; Archdeacon of Bristol from 1904 to 1910; and Archdeacon of North Wilts from 1910 to [5] 1919.

He died at home in Burnham-on-Sea on 16 August 1921. [6] His brother Henry, also a priest, [7] was a member of the Wanderers team which won the FA Cup in 1873; and his son Weston was Bishop in Jerusalem from 1943 to 1957. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ ‘STEWART, Rev. Ravenscroft’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 29 April 2013
  2. ↑ UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE .Cambridge 10 Dec Leeds Mercury (Leeds, England), Saturday, 12 December 1868; Issue 9569
  3. ↑ ‘GENERAL ORDINATIONS LICHFIELD’ The Morning Post (London, England), Tuesday, 20 December 1870; pg. 6; Issue 30275
  4. ↑ Victorian Web
  5. ↑ "The Clergy List" London, Kelly’s, 1913
  6. ↑ The Rev. Ravenscroft Stewart The Times (London, England), Saturday, 20 Aug 1921; pg. 11; Issue 42804
  7. ↑ thePeerage.com
  8. ↑ Library of New Zealand


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