Colonel Sir Michael Robert Shaw-Stewart, 7th Baronet (26 November 1826 – 10 December 1903) was a British baronet and Conservative Party politician. He sat in the

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from 1855 to 1865. He was the son of Sir Michael Shaw-Stewart, 6th Baronet.

Biography

A keen

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er, Shaw-Stewart played a single

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match for the

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in 1850. He was said to be a staunch supporter of the

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fox hunt. In May 1855, he was elected at an unopposed by-election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for

. He was re-elected in

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and

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, and held the seat until his defeat at the 1865 general election. Shaw-Stewart was

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from 1869 to 1903 and Grand Master of the

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from 1873 to 1882. He bought the manor of

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from his wife's mother and was appointed

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for 1883.

Personal life

On 28 December 1852, he married Lady Octavia Grosvenor, sixth daughter of the 2nd Marquess of Westminster. They had five sons and four daughters, including Sir Michael Hugh Shaw-Stewart, 8th Baronet (1854–1942); Walter Richard Shaw-Stewart (1861–1934); and Helen Shaw-Stewart, who married Charles Pierrepont, 4th Earl Manvers.

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