James Haldane Stewart (December 22, 1778 – 22 October 1854) was rector of

Limpsfield Limpsfield is a village and civil parish in Surrey, England, at the foot of the North Downs close to Oxted railway station and the A25.

, 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). His father was 10th Chief of Clan Appin, and married in 1767 Anne Erving of Boston. She was the daughter of Hon. John Erving of

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, loyalist Governor of Boston and a member of His Majesty's Council for the Province and his wife, Anne Shirley, the daughter of

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colonial,

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and owner of the Shirley-Eustis House. He was educated at Dr Valpy’s school in

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and

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, after which he trained at Lincoln's Inn, for a career in law. Stewart was converted in 1802 through his contact with the Anglican clergyman William Marsh and Thomas Tyndale.

Ordination

Stewart matriculated in 1803 at

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and graduated B.A. in 1806 and M.A. in 1811. He was ordained deacon in 1806 and priest in 1807; and was appointed curate of Basildon with Ashampstead in Berkshire in 1809. From 1812 to 1828 he officiated at Percy Chapel in London, despite suffering a breakdown in health in 1817 which necessitated a visit to the Continent. He was the first minister of

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, on 29 December 1830. He named the street there Percy Street, after the Percy Chapel, which was in Percy Street, London.

Activities

Stewart was an active supporter of the ''London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews'' (a Jewish Christian missionary society now known as the Church's Ministry Among Jewish People or CMJ), the

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and the

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. He built his own chapel in Liverpool and ministered there from 1830 to 1846. Stewart after 1820 was a strong advocate of prayer for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Stewart was Rector of Limpsfield in Surrey during his final years.

Publications

In 1820, he published ''Hints for the General Union of Christians for the Outpouring of the Spirit''.

Family

Stewart married Mary Dale, daughter of

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, on 15 August 1816 in

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, Scotland. The Rev. James Haldane Stewart Jr., his elder son, (18 October 1820 – 24 February 1879) was curate at

Limpsfield Limpsfield is a village and civil parish in Surrey, England, at the foot of the North Downs close to Oxted railway station and the A25.

, and married Emily Katherine

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, daughter of William Leveson-Gower, of

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on 22 May 1866. He was the rector of

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, from 1855 to 1866 and then Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, Berkshire (now transferred to Oxfordshire). The couple had six daughters: *Mary Emily Haldane Stewart (1869–1948) *Pamella Frances Haldane Stewart (1870–1949) *Anne Cecelia Diana Stewart (1872–1951) *Lilian Leveson Gower Stewart (1873–1889) *Caroline Sophia Campbell Stewart (1875–1965) who married the Rt Reverend

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, Dean of Lincoln *Katherine Maria Gresham Stewart (1877–1886)

Sources

* ''Memoir of the life of the Rev. James Haldane Stewart, M.A.'' by his second son Rev David Dale Stewart. Thos. Hatchard, 187, Piccadilly,

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. 1857, which ran to two editions * ''Dictionary of Evangelical Biography'', edited by Donald Lewis (1995)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stewart, James Haldane 1778 births 1854 deaths Clergy from Boston Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford Clergy from Southampton American emigrants to England People educated at Eton College Members of Lincoln's Inn 19th-century English Anglican priests