Duncan Stewart (born ?1732 at Ardsheal) was 10th Chief of the

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and 6th of Ardsheal, and a friend of

James Boswell James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (; 29 October 1740 (New Style, N.S.) – 19 May 1795), was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, born in Edinburgh. He is best known for his biography of his friend and older contemporary the Englis ...

. He was the eldest surviving son of Charles Stewart, 5th of Ardsheal, the Jacobite leader of the Clan at the

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, 16 April 1746, during the

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and Isabel Haldane of Lanrick daughter of John Haldane 2nd of Lanrick. Stewart was born at Ardsheal from where his father Charles Stewart (5th of Ardsheal) had fled to

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, dying at

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, 15 March 1757, having escaped from Scotland in 1746. After the battle of Culloden he was sentenced to death ''in absentia'' and all his estates had been confiscated by the government. Duncan Stewart became collector of customs in

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and later in

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. During the

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Stewart supported the government against the rebels and was rewarded for his loyalty by having the estates in Ardsheal, Scotland returned to him in 1769 that had been confiscated from his father. Stewart is remembered best for his portrait by

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held by the

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and for his friendship and travels with James Boswell. Stewart settled back in Scotland on his returned estates where he inherited the chieftainship of the Clan of Appin on the death of his cousin, Dugald Stewart, 9th of Appin. Stewart married Anne Erving daughter of the Hon. John Erving, loyalist Governor of

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, and a member of His Majesty's Council for the Province and his wife Anne Shirley of Shirley-Eustis House and daughter of

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Governor of

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. Duncan Stewart and Anne Erving had 10 children including the prelate

James Haldane Stewart James Haldane Stewart (December 22, 1778 – 22 October 1854) was rector of Limpsfield, Surrey, where he lies buried. Early life James Haldane Stewart was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the third son of Duncan Stewart of Ardsheal (died 1793 ...

. Duncan Stewart died on September 12, 1793 in

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and was buried in

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Churchyard.London and its Environs: vols (1795) His grave is lost but is not listed on the 19th century monument erected to record the names of important lost graves.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Stewart of Ardsheal, Duncan 1732 births 1793 deaths Lords of Parliament in the Jacobite peerage People from Argyll and Bute