1791 - 1836
London Army agent, co-claimant (apparently unsuccessfully) with his partner William Barron (q.v.) for compensation in St Lucia, in pursuit of a debtor for whom a slave-owner in St Lucia had stood security.
The will of Archibald David Stewart, army agent of Chiswick Mall and 4 Upper Charles Street was written in 1835 and proved in 1836 by his widow Sarah as guardian of his son and sole executor David James Stewart (student at Trinity College, Cambridge at the time Archibald wrote his will). Archibald David Stewart of Chiswick was buried at St Nicholas, Chiswick, 21/03/1836 aged 45 years.
David James Stewart, Adm. pens. (age 19) at TRINITY, Oct. 18, 1833. S. of Archibald. B. in London. School, private. Matric. Michs. 1834; B.A. 1839; M.A. 1842. Ord. deacon (Chester) 1839; priest, 1840. C. of Adderbury, Oxon., 1843-8. V. of Hillmarton, Wilts., 1849-50. H.M. Inspector of Schools, 1851-91. Hon. Canon of Ely, 1893-8. Latterly of 71, Mornington Road, Regent's Park, London, where he died Mar. 18, 1898. Father of Aubrey (1864). (Clergy List; Crockford; The Times, Mar. 21, 1898.)
PROB 11/1863/332; Ancestry.com, London, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-2003 [database online].
Ancestry.com, Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900 [database online].
We are grateful to Peter Selley for his assistance with compiling this entry.
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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Spouse
Sarah
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Children
David James
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Will
PROB 11/1863/332 - precis. Archibald David Stewart of Chiswick Mall, Middlesex. To my adored son David James Stewart, now a student of Trinity College Cambridge, all my property, bonds, bills, my leasehold house at 26 Parliament Street and Chiswick Mall, my share in the house of A. D. Stewart and Company, 4 Upper Charles Street, Parliament Street, my shares in the Scottish Union Insurance Company and every other description of property whatsoever on condition of paying all my just debts and funeral expenses and paying to his mother an annuity of £50 for life and also to her a sum of £50 as soon as convenient after m decease. The annuity to be voluntary on his part and beyond the power or control of any individual or court of law. David James Stewart to be my sole heir and universal executor. Reversion failing children of his body lawfully begotten to the children of my brother John Stewart of Ballechen, Prince Edwards Island. Signed 05/08/1835. Proved 07/06/1836 by Sarah Stewart, widow, guardian of David James Stewart, a minor. Proved 10/09/1838 by David James Stewart who has now attained the age of 21 years. |
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Occupation
Army Agent
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£1,240 10s 11d
Unsuccessful claimant
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Commercial (1) |
Name partner
A. D. Stewart & Co.
Army Agent |
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Business partners
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4 Upper Charles Street, London, Middlesex, London, England
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Chiswick Mall, Chiswick, London, Middlesex, London, England
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1729 - 1809
Quaker merchant and banker, abolitionist who manumitted enslaved people in Jamaica
The Buff Bay plantation was a sugar estate next to the Buff Bay River, south of Charlestown in Jamaica. By 1839, the estate was 840 acres.
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CITING THIS RECORD:
'Archibald David Stewart', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146660657/ [accessed 28th November 2021].
