Rev. Charles Edward Stewart

Profile & Legacies Summary

1759 - 1819

Biography

Rector of Wakes Colnes in Essex 1795-1819. Through his wife Ann Alethea nee Wallin (q.v.) he came into possession of the Litchfield estate in St Thomas-in-the-Vale in Jamaica. Author of several volumes, including A Collection of Trifles in Verse (1797) and Obedience to government, reverence to the Constitution, and resistance to Bonaparte: a sermon preached at Bury St. Edmund's, before the Right Hon. Lord Chief Baron MacDonald, and the Honourable Mr. Baron Hotham, at the Assizes, held there July 29, 1803, as well as some pamphlets of political commentary.

Adm. pens. (age 17) at CHRIST'S, Mar. 3, 1767. S. of Giles. B. at Long Melford, Suffolk. School, Ely. Scholar, 1767; matric. Lent, 1768; B.A. 1771. Incorp. at Magdalen College, Oxford, 1772; M.A. (Oxford) 1773. R. of Courteenhall, Northants., 1773-95. R. of Wakes Colne, Essex, 1795-1819. R. of Rede, Suffolk, 1807-19. Author, The Aliad; an heroical epistle to Clos?? Redivivus. Died Oct. 8, 1819, aged 70. (Peile, II. 283; Al. Oxon.; Northants. Clergy, XIII. 65.)

Sources

For his publications, see http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/results?Maker=Charles+Edward+Stewart [accessed 16/12/2106].

Ancestry.com, Cambridge University Alumni 1261-1900 [database online].

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Spouse

Ann Althea Wallin

School

Ely

University

Christ’s College, Cambridge BA 1771; Magdalen College, Oxford, MA 1773 [1768-1771; Oxford: 1772-1773 ]

Occupation

Clergyman

Religion

Church of England

Associated Estates (1)

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