Ravenscroft Stewart

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Ravenscroft Stewart was an eminent Anglican priest in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.‘STEWART, Rev. Ravenscroft’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U203371, accessed 29 April 2013]

Stewart was born in Newton Stewart on 23 June 1845, educated at Loretto; Uppingham and Trinity College, CambridgeUNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE .Cambridge 10 Dec Leeds Mercury (Leeds, England), Saturday, 12 December 1868; Issue 9569 and ordained in 1870.‘GENERAL ORDINATIONS LICHFIELD’ The Morning Post (London, England), Tuesday, 20 December 1870; pg. 6; Issue 30275 After a curacy in Bakewell he was Rector of Pleasley from 1871 to 1883; Vicar of All Saints Ennismore Gardens[http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/townsend/9.html Victorian Web] from 1884 to 1909; Archdeacon of Bristol from 1904 to 1910; and Archdeacon of North Wilts from 1910 to"The Clergy List" London, Kelly’s, 1913 1919.

He died at home in Burnham-on-Sea on 16 August 1921.The Rev. Ravenscroft Stewart The Times (London, England), Saturday, 20 Aug 1921; pg. 11; Issue 42804 His brother Henry, also a priest,[http://www.thepeerage.com/p29551.htm#i295505 thePeerage.com] was a member of the Wanderers team which won the FA Cup in 1873; and his son Weston was Bishop in Jerusalem from 1943 to 1957.[http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=WCHG19430901.2.25&dliv=&e=-------10--1----0—National Library of New Zealand]