Stewart was born on 1 November 1851, at
Gortleitragh House,
County Dublin, to James Robert Stewart, a wealthy land agent, and Martha his wife Martha, daughter of the eminent
barrister Richard Benson Warren, and granddaughter of
Sir Robert Warren, 1st Baronet, the head of a leading landowning family from
County Cork. The prominent
missionary Robert Warren Stewart, who was murdered in China in 1895, was his elder brother. Stewart was educated at
Marlborough College and
Trinity College, Dublin, graduating in 1872. He set up in business as a land agent in
County Leitrim and acquired extensive interests. He was chairman of the Irish branch of the
Surveyors' Institute and later of the institute itself and of the
Land Agents' Association. In 1919, he was appointed Governor of the
Bank of Ireland. He was a
Unionist member of the
Irish Convention, and served as the Vice-Chairman of the
Irish Unionist Alliance. Stewart was appointed to the
Privy Council for Ireland in the
1921 Birthday Honours, entitling him to the style "The Right Honourable". Stewart married Georgiana Lavinia Quin, daughter of Richard Quin of
Torquay, in 1881; they had four children. He died on 12 August 1928, aged 76. ==Footnotes==