John Stewart of Nateby Hall

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FGS (10 January 1813 – 17 March 1867) was a British naturalist.

Early life

Stewart was born at Parkhouse in

Stranraer Stranraer ( , in Scotland also ; gd, An t-Sròn Reamhar ), also known as The Toon, is a town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is located in the historical parish of Inch in the historic county of Wigtownshire. It lies on the shores of L ...

on 10 January 1813. He was the eldest surviving son of Elizabeth Dalrymple-Hay and Lt. Levenson Douglas Stewart (1786–1819) of the

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. His father died when Stewart was only six years old. His paternal grandfather was Vice Admiral The Hon.

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(the second surviving son of

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) and his maternal grandfather was Sir John Dalrymple-Hay, 1st Baronet. His paternal uncle,

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, was married to

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(the former wife of Vice Admiral

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and daughter of Francis Mackenzie, 1st Baron Seaforth). He was educated at Edinburgh Academy 1824 to 1829. He then studied science at the

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Career

In 1846, he was elected a Life Member of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. Around 1850, upon death of his father-in-law, he inherited Nateby Hall in

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and thereafter styled himself John Stewart of Nateby Hall. He was elected a Fellow of the

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in 1851; his proposer was

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. In 1853, he became a member of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland.

Personal life

In 1841, he married Elizabeth Thomson, daughter of Richard Thomson. They had one son: * John Levenson Douglas Stewart (1842–1887) who was elected a Fellow of the

in 1868 and who married Margaret Anne Thomson, daughter of James Gibson Thomson, in 1868. He died on 17 March 1867. He is buried in

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in western Edinburgh. The grave lies on the southern wall at the extreme western edge of the southern terrace.

Descendants

Through his only son John, he was posthumously a grandfather of Grace Hamilton Stewart (d. 1966), who married Edwin Arthur Russell Benham in 1894, and Lt.-Col. John Stewart (1869–1931), who married Valentia Worship, daughter of William Worship, in 1891.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stewart, John 1813 births 1867 deaths British naturalists British people of Portuguese-Jewish descent People from Stranraer Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Burials at the Dean Cemetery