James Haldane Stewart was rector of Limpsfield

Limpsfield

Limpsfield is a village and parish in the east of the county of Surrey, England near Oxted at the foot of the North Downs. It lies between the A25 to the south and the M25 motorway to the north, near the Clackett Lane service station...

, Surrey

Surrey

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, where he lies buried.
He was the third son of Duncan Stewart of Ardsheal

Duncan Stewart of Ardsheal

Duncan Stewart was 10th Chief of the Clan Stewart of Appin and 6th of Ardsheal, and a friend of James Boswell. He was the eldest surviving son of Charles Stewart, 5th of Ardsheal, the Jacobite leader of the Clan at the Battle of Culloden, 16 April 1746, during the Jacobite Rising of 1745 and...

 , 10th Chief of Clan Appin

Clan Stewart of Appin

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 (died 1793) who married (1767) Anne Erving of Boston. Anne Erving was the daughter of Hon. John Erving of Connecticut

Connecticut

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) loyalist governor of Boston and a member of his majesty's Council for the Province and his wife Anne Shirley herself daughter of William Shirley

William Shirley

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 colonial Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay and owner of the Shirley-Eustis House

Shirley-Eustis House

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 . James Haldane Stewart married Mary Dale (daughter of David Dale

David Dale

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).

Early life

James Haldane Stewart was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was educated at Dr Valpy’s

Richard Valpy

-Biography:He was born the eldest son of Richard and Catherine Valpy in Jersey. He was sent to schools in Normandy and Southampton, and completed his education at Pembroke College, Oxford. In 1777 he took orders. After holding a mastership at Bury, in 1781 he became head master of Reading grammar...

 school in Reading, Berkshire

Reading, Berkshire

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 and Eton College

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, after which he trained at Lincoln's Inn

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, for a career in law. Stewart was converted in 1802 through his contact with the Anglican clergyman William Marsh and Thomas Tyndale.

Ordination

Stewart matriculated in 1803 at Exeter College, Oxford

Exeter College, Oxford

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 and graduated B.A. in 1806 and M.A. in 1810. He was ordained and appointed Curate of Ashampstead

Ashampstead

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 in Berkshire

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. From 1812 to 1828 he officiated at Percy Chapel in London despite suffering a breakdown in health in 1817 which necessitated a visit to the Continent.

He was the first minister of St Bride's Church, Liverpool

St Bride's Church, Liverpool

St Bride's Church Canning, Liverpool, England was designed by Samuel Rowland. The building work started on August 29, 1829 and was consecrated December 29, 1830. It was built for the Reverend James Haldane Stewart and is a Grade II* Listed building....

, (1831) naming the street, Percy Street, after the Percy chapel, also in Percy street, London.

Activities

Stewart was an active supporter of the London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews (a Jewish Christian missionary society now known as the Church's Ministry Among Jewish People

Church's Ministry Among Jewish People

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 or CMJ), the Church Missionary Society and the Protestant Reformation Society. He built his own chapel in Liverpool and ministered there from 1830 to 1846. Stewart after 1820 was a strong advocate of prayer for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
Stewart was Rector of Limpsfield in Surrey during his final years.

Publications

In 1820 The Rev. James Haldane Stewart published “Hints for the General Union of Christians for the Outpouring of the Spirit”.

James Haldane Stewart Junior

Rev. James Haldane Stewart Jr., his elder son, (died 24 February 1879) was curate at Limpsfield, and married Emily Katherine Leveson-Gower

Leveson-Gower

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, daughter of William Leveson-Gower, of Titsey Place

Titsey Place

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 on 22 May 1866. James Haldane Stewart Jr was later the Rector of Brightwell-cum-Sotwell

Brightwell-cum-Sotwell

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, Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire

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.

They had three offspring

Caroline Stewart (1875–1965) who married the Rt reverend Ernest Blackie

Ernest Blackie

Ernest Morell Blackie was an Anglican bishop in the first half of the 20th century. He was born in Leamington Spa on 19 August 1867 and educated at Cheltenham Grammar School and the University of London. Ordained in 1891 he began his career with a curacy at St Mark's, Gloucester and was then a...

 Dean of Lincoln

Pamela Stewart (1870-1950?)

Anne Stewart (1872-1950?)

Sources

• "Memoir of the life of the Rev. James Haldane Stewart, M.A" by his second son Rev David Dale Stewart. Thos. Hatchard, 187, Piccadilly
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  , London
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  . 1857, which ran to two editions
• Dictionary of Evangelical Biography, edited by Donald Lewis (1995)