Alexander Robert Stewart (12 September 1795 – 25 March 1850) was an Irish landowner and
Member of Parliament
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.
He was the son of
Alexander Stewart of Ards by his wife Lady Mary, daughter of
Charles Moore, 1st Marquess of Drogheda
Field Marshal Charles Moore, 1st Marquess of Drogheda (29 June 1730 – 22 December 1822), styled Viscount Moore from 1752 until 28 October 1758 and then Earl of Drogheda until 2 July 1791, was an Irish peer and later a British peer, and mili ...
. His uncle was
Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry
Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry PC (Ire) (1739–1821), was a County Down landowner, Irish Volunteer, and member of the parliament who, exceptionally for an Ulster Scot and Presbyterian, rose within the ranks of Ireland's "Angl ...
and he was first cousin to
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry, (18 June 1769 – 12 August 1822), usually known as Lord Castlereagh, derived from the courtesy title Viscount Castlereagh ( ) by which he was styled from 1796 to 1821, was an Anglo-Irish politician ...
(
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
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during the
Napoleonic Wars
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and principal British diplomat at the
Congress of Vienna
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) and
Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry.
He was elected to Parliament for
Londonderry at the
1818 general election, succeeding his father, and sat until the
1830 general election and "supported
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government silently".
He was appointed High Sheriff of Donegal for 1831.
On 28 July 1825 he married Lady Caroline Pratt, daughter of John Jeffreys Pratt, 1st Marquess Camden. Her aunt Lady Frances Pratt was the second wife of the first Marquess of Londonderry and the mother of the third Marquess.
Alexander Robert Stewart lived at the family estate of Ards House,
. His family papers are in the
* https://web.archive.org/web/20111203104125/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Lcommons4.htm
* http://www.proni.gov.uk/introduction__stewart-bam_papers.pdf