Stewart Schneider

{{Short description|Member of State Council of Ceylon}}

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|office = Solicitor General of Ceylon

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|birth_name = Gualterus Stewart Schneider

|birth_date = 12 April 1864

|birth_place = Colombo, Ceylan

|death_date =c. September 1938

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Sir Gualterus Stewart Schneider (12 April 1864 – c. September 1938{{cite news |title=Obituary: Sir Stewart Schneider |work=The Times |date=5 September 1938 }}) was a member of the State Council of Ceylon and the 7th Solicitor General of Ceylon. He was appointed on 1917, succeeding Thomas Garvin, and held the office until 1917. He was succeeded also by Thomas Garvin.{{cite web|title=History|url=http://attorneygeneral.gov.lk/index.php/history/past-solicitor-general|publisher=Attorney General's Department|accessdate=15 April 2014}}{{cite web |title=Genealogy of the family of Schneider of Ceylon. |url=http://thedutchburgherunion.org/genealogy/ancestry-s/JDBU%201915%20Vol%208%20No%204-3%20p69%20-%20Schneider%20Ancestry(1).pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140415231054/http://thedutchburgherunion.org/genealogy/ancestry-s/JDBU%201915%20Vol%208%20No%204-3%20p69%20-%20Schneider%20Ancestry(1).pdf |archive-date=2014-04-15 |accessdate=14 April 2014 |publisher=thedutchburgherunion.org}}

He was made a Knight Bachelor in the 1928 Birthday Honours.{{London Gazette |issue=33390 |date=4 June 1928 |page=3847 |supp=y}} In 1931, he was appointed to the First State Council by the Governor. The State Council was ceremonially opened on 10 July 1931, and Sir Stewart was defeated by A. F. Molamure for the post of speaker by 35 to 18 votes.

He was the grandson of Gualterus Schneider, the first Surveyor-General of Ceylon.{{cite book|last1=Wright|first1=Arnold|title=Twentieth Century Impressions of Ceylon: Its History, People, Commerce, Industries, and Resources|date=1907|publisher=Asian Educational Services|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eUF_rS8FEoIC&pg=PA570|page=570|isbn=9788120613355|accessdate=18 February 2016}}