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]
References
edit- ^ ‘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
- ^ UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE .Cambridge 10 Dec Leeds Mercury (Leeds, England), Saturday, 12 December 1868; Issue 9569
- ^ ‘GENERAL ORDINATIONS LICHFIELD’ The Morning Post (London, England), Tuesday, 20 December 1870; pg. 6; Issue 30275
- ^ Victorian Web
- ^ "The Clergy List" London, Kelly’s, 1913
- ^ The Rev. Ravenscroft Stewart The Times (London, England), Saturday, 20 Aug 1921; pg. 11; Issue 42804
- ^ thePeerage.com
- ^ Library of New Zealand
