Ryde Social Heritage Group research the social history of the citizens of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Documenting their lives, businesses and burial transcriptions.
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Based at Ryde Cemetery Heritage & Learning Centre. Preserving, documenting and promoting the social history of Ryde on the Isle of Wight.
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the Hon Edward Stewart

Title: the Hon
Forenames: Edward
Surnames: Stewart
Date of Birth: 05/05/1782
Date of Death: 27/08/1851
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 002 C3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Parish Cemetery 1 Plot 95
Grave Description: Simple stone headstone, iron railings around grave, stone top to grave.
Grave Condition Description: Fairly good, railings intact except for SE corner knob.
Other Information: The Annual Register, or, A View of the History and Politics of the Year 1851 States under Deaths: AUG... 27. At Ryde, Isle of Wight, in his 70th year, the Hon. Edward Richard Stewart, formerly Deputy Chairman of the Board of Customs; uncle to the Earl of Galloway. He was the seventh son of John, seventh Earl of Galloway, K.T., and served some years in the army. In 1806 he was returned to Parliament for the Wigton district of burghs; was re-elected in 1807; and resigned his seat in Feb., 1809, on being appointed one of the commissioners for victualling the navy. He subsequently became Deputy Chairman of the Board of Customs, which office he resigned in 1846.
Old Website Grave ID: 1027

Inscription:

SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
THE HONORABLE EDWARD STEWART
5TH SON OF JOHN 7TH EARL OF GALLOWAY
HE WAS BORN ON THE 5TH OF MAY 1782
AND DIED AT RYDE ON 27TH OF AUGUST 1851

IN THE SAME GRAVE ARE DEPOSITED
AT HER OWN REQUEST
THE REMAINS OF HIS WIDOW
THE LADY KATHERINE STEWART
WHO DIED IN LONDON ON THE 15TH OF OCTOBER 1863
IN HER 84TH YEAR

"THANKS BE TO GOD WHICH GIVETH US THE VICTORY
THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST" 1 COR XV. 57,

Photographs:

Sally-Ann Garrett
Stewart
Photographer: Sally-Ann Garrett

Related Documents:

PDF file: Obituary from The Gentleman 1851

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