John Stewart of Nateby HallFRSE FGS (10 January 1813 – 17 March 1867) was a British naturalist.
Early life
Stewart was born at Parkhouse in Stranraer on 10 January 1813. He was the eldest surviving son of Elizabeth Dalrymple-Hay and Lt. Levenson Douglas Stewart (1786–1819) of the Royal Navy. His father died when Stewart was only six years old.[1]
In 1846, he was elected a Life Member of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh.[5] Around 1850, upon death of his father-in-law, he inherited Nateby Hall in Lancashire and thereafter styled himself John Stewart of Nateby Hall.[6]
In 1853, he became a member of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland.[8]
Personal life
In 1841, he married Elizabeth Thomson, daughter of Richard Thomson. They had one son:[9]
John Levenson Douglas Stewart (1842–1887) who was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1868 and who married Margaret Anne Thomson, daughter of James Gibson Thomson, in 1868.[10]
He died on 17 March 1867.[10] He is buried in Dean Cemetery in western Edinburgh. The grave lies on the southern wall at the extreme western edge of the southern terrace.
Descendants
Through his only son John, he was posthumously a grandfather of Grace Hamilton Stewart (d. 1966), who married Edwin Arthur Russell Benham in 1894,[11][12] and Lt.-Col. John Stewart (1869–1931), who married Valentia Worship, daughter of William Worship, in 1891.[10]