Joseph Christopher Ewart

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|office = Member of Parliament
for Liverpool

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|term_start = 29 March 1855

|term_end = 15 July 1865

|alongside = Thomas Horsfall

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Henry Liddell

|successor = Thomas Horsfall
Samuel Robert Graves

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Joseph Christopher Ewart (1799 – 14 December 1868){{Rayment-hc|l|3|date=June 2017|accessdate=19 May 2018}} was a British Liberal and Whig politician.{{cite news|title=Liverpool Election|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000830/18550331/042/0003|accessdate=19 May 2018|work=Newry Examiner and Louth Advertiser|date=31 March 1855|page=3|via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}{{cite news|title=Bell's Weekly Messenger|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001286/18550331/031/0004|accessdate=19 May 2018|date=31 March 1855|page=4|via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}

He was elected Whig MP for Liverpool at a by-election in 1855—caused by the succession of Henry Liddell to 2nd Baron Ravensworth—and held the seat until 1865 when he was defeated.{{cite book|editor1-last=Craig|editor1-first=F. W. S.|editor-link=F. W. S. Craig|title=British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885|date=1977|publisher=Macmillan Press|location=London|isbn=978-1-349-02349-3|edition=1st|type=e-book}}

He was the third son of William Ewart, a Scottish-born Liverpool merchant. William Ewart was a close friend of another Scottish merchant, John (later Sir John) Gladstone, and the namesake of John's son - William Ewart Gladstone, the Victorian statesman and four times Prime Minister.{{Cite book |last=Miller |first=Anthony M. |title=The Inviting Shore: A Social History of New Brighton, Part One, 1830-1939 |publisher=Countyvise Limited |isbn=0907768938 |location=Birkenhead |publication-date=1996 |page=38}}