Sir Michael Shaw-Stewart, 7th Baronet

{{Short description|British baronet and Conservative Party politician}}

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| name = Michael Shaw-Stewart

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| office1 = Lord Lieutenant of Renfrewshire

| term1 = 1869–1903

| office2 = Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland

| term2 = 1873–1882

| office3 = Member of Parliament for Renfrewshire

| term3 = 1855-1865

| party = Conservative

| birth_date = {{birth date|1826|11|26|df=yes}}

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| death_date = {{death date and age|1903|12|10|1826|11|26|df=yes}}

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| father = Michael Shaw-Stewart

| spouse = {{marriage|Octavia Grosvenor|1852}}

| children = 9, including Hugh

| relatives = Michael Stewart (grandfather)
Charles Pierrepont (son-in-law)
Richard Grosvenor (father-in-law)

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Colonel Sir Michael Robert Shaw-Stewart, 7th Baronet (26 November 1826 – 10 December 1903) was a British baronet and Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1855 to 1865. He was the son of Sir Michael Shaw-Stewart, 6th Baronet.

Biography

A keen cricketer, Shaw-Stewart played a single first-class cricket match for the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1850.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/37/37665/37665.html|title=Player profile: Michael Shaw-Stewart|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=10 July 2014}} He was said to be a staunch supporter of the Renfrewshire fox hunt.{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/recordsoflanarks00judd/recordsoflanarks00judd_djvu.txt|title=Full text of "Records of the Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire Hunt"|website=archive.org|access-date=2016-11-29}}

In May 1855, he was elected at an unopposed by-election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Renfrewshire. He was re-elected in 1857 and 1859, and held the seat until his defeat at the 1865 general election.

Shaw-Stewart was Lord Lieutenant of Renfrewshire from 1869 to 1903 and Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland from 1873 to 1882. He bought the manor of Hindon, Wiltshire from his wife's mother{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol11/pp82-103|title=Victoria County History: Wiltshire: Vol 11 pp82-103 - Parishes: East Knoyle|date=1980|editor-last=Crowley|editor-first=D.A.|website=British History Online|publisher=University of London|author-first1=A.P.|author-last1=Baggs|author-first2=Elizabeth|author-last2=Crittall|author-first3=Jane|author-last3=Freeman|author-first4=Janet H|author-last4=Stevenson|access-date=21 June 2017}} and was appointed High Sheriff of Wiltshire for 1883.{{London Gazette| issue=25208|page=1232|date=3 March 1883}}

Personal life

On 28 December 1852, he married Lady Octavia Grosvenor, sixth daughter of the 2nd Marquess of Westminster. They had five sons and four daughters,Obituary in The Times, 11 December 1903, p. 6. Retrieved 16 March 2016. including Sir Michael Hugh Shaw-Stewart, 8th Baronet (1854–1942); Walter Richard Shaw-Stewart (1861–1934); and Helen Shaw-Stewart, who married Charles Pierrepont, 4th Earl Manvers.{{cite news |title=Obituary – Lord Manvers |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS236788467/TTDA?u=mclib&sid=bookmark-TTDA&xid=a0e42a83 |access-date=7 January 2025 |work=The Times |via=The Times Digital Archive |issue=44327 |date=19 July 1926 |url-access=subscription}}