Sir John Stewart, 1st Baronet (''c.''1758 – 22 June 1825) was an Irish lawyer and politician. He was a son of

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clergyman, the Reverend Hugh Stewart, Rector of

Termonmaguirk Termonmaguirk is a civil parish in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the historic barony of Omagh East, with a small portion in Strabane Upper. The Parish contains the following towns and villages: *Carrickmore * Drumnakilly * L ...

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and Sarah Hamilton, daughter of the Venerable Andrew Hamilton, who was

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for more than sixty years. He was educated in

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and at

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, studied law at

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, and was called to the Irish Bar in 1781.
History of Parliament Online article. In 1794, he was elected to the

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for

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. At the 1797 elections, he was elected for four constituencies:

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, Bangor, Portarlington and

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. He chose to sit for Bangor, and held that seat until the dissolution of the

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when the Act of Union came into effect in 1801. He was

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from 1798 to 1799 and

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from 1799 to 1803. He was

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in 1809. After the Act of Union he was elected to the

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Member of Parliament (MP) for Tyrone from 1802 to 1806 and 1812 until his death in 1825. Stewart married in 1789, Mary, daughter of Mervyn Archdale of

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, near

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, with whom he had two sons and a daughter. Driving a two-horse carriage while suffering from long-term sickness, he was badly injured when his horses bolted and died four days later in June 1825. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his elder son,

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