Walter Stewart (c.1568–1635) was a prominent Scottish clergyman in post-Reformation Scotland who served as Protestant

Archbishop of Glasgow The Archbishop of Glasgow is an archiepiscopal title that takes its name after the city of Glasgow in Scotland. The position and title were abolished by the Church of Scotland in 1689; and, in the Scottish Episcopal Church, it is now part of the ...

from 1587 to 1598.

Life

He was the son of Matthew Stewart of Barscube (near Paisley) and Minto. His uncle,

John Stewart of Minto Sir John Stewart of Minto (1525–1583) was a Provost of Glasgow. He was the son of Robert Stewart of Minto, also a Provost of Glasgow, and Janet Murray. Their ancestral lands were at Minto, Scottish Borders, Minto in the Scottish borders. His unc ...

, was

Lord Provost of Glasgow The Right Honourable Lord Provost of Glasgow is the convener of the Glasgow City Council. Elected by the city councillors, the Lord Provost serves not only as the chair of that body, but as a figurehead for the entire city. The office is equiv ...

. Walter studied at

Glasgow University , image = UofG Coat of Arms.png , image_size = 150px , caption = Coat of arms Flag , latin_name = Universitas Glasguensis , motto = la, Via, Veritas, Vita , ...

graduating MA in 1584. In 1587 he was presented to the parish of

Old Kilpatrick Old Kilpatrick ( sco, Auld Kilpaitrick, gd, Cille Phàdraig meaning "Patrick's church"), is a village in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It has an estimated population of 4,820. It belonged to the parish of Old Kilpatrick which itself was only a f ...

under patronage of

King James VI James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until ...

. He was also appointed Commendator of

Blantyre Blantyre () is Malawi's centre of finance and commerce, and its second largest city, with an enumerated 800,264 inhabitants . It is sometimes referred to as the commercial and industrial capital of Malawi as opposed to the political capital, L ...

.''Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae''; vol. 7; by Hew Scott He was

from 1587 to 1598 also being given "Lordship of Glasgow" by the King. He was succeeded by the elderly

James Beaton James Beaton (or Bethune) (1473–1539) was a Roman Catholic Scottish church leader, the uncle of David Cardinal Beaton and the Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland. Life James Beaton was the sixth and youngest son of John Beaton of Balfour, ...

. He was Chancellor of

Glasgow University , image = UofG Coat of Arms.png , image_size = 150px , caption = Coat of arms Flag , latin_name = Universitas Glasguensis , motto = la, Via, Veritas, Vita , ...

1587 to 1589. On several occasions, under his title of Lord of Glasgow, he made his elder brother,

Matthew Stewart of Minto Matthew Stewart of Minto (c.1545 – c.1612) was a prominent Scottish merchant who was four times Lord Provost of Glasgow. Life He was the son of John Stewart of Minto, Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1565 to 1573, and his first wife Joanna Hepburn. ...

. In 1606 he was made Constant Moderator of the Presbytery of the Church of Scotland in the absence of John Blackburn of

Cardross Cardross (Scottish Gaelic: ''Càrdainn Ros'') is a large village with a population of 2,194 (2011) in Scotland, on the north side of the Firth of Clyde, situated halfway between Dumbarton and Helensburgh. Cardross is in the historic geographical ...

. He was a member of the Court of High Commission in both 1610 and 1634. He died in March 1635.''Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae''; vol. 3; by Hew Scott He is buried in

Glasgow Cathedral Glasgow Cathedral ( gd, Cathair-eaglais Ghlaschu) is a parish church of the Church of Scotland in Glasgow, Scotland. It is the oldest cathedral in mainland Scotland and the oldest building in Glasgow. The cathedral was the seat of the Archbishop ...

Family

He married firstly Katherine Inglis, sister of Thomas Inglis of Paisley. Their daughter Margaret married James Lennox of Woodhead. Katherine died in 1610/11. He then married Eupham Lindsay (d.1622) and had a son, Walter, and two daughters, Jean and Mary. He thirdly married Agnes Boyd, who outlived him.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stewart, Walter 1635 deaths Alumni of the University of Glasgow Scottish bishops 1560–1638 Bishops of Glasgow Burials at Glasgow Cathedral