Sir John Stewart, 1st Baronet, of Athenree

Sir John Stewart, 1st Baronet (c.1758 – 22 June 1825) was an Irish lawyer and politician. He was son of Church of Ireland clergyman, the Reverend Hugh Stewart, Rector of Termonmaguirk, County Tyrone. He was educated in Drogheda and at Trinity College Dublin, studied law at Lincoln's Inn, and was called to the Irish Bar in 1781.^[1]

In 1794, he was elected to the Irish House of Commons for Augher. At the 1797 elections, he was elected for four constituencies: Askeaton, Bangor, Portarlington and Strabane. He chose to sit for Bangor, and held that seat until the dissolution of the Parliament of Ireland when the Act of Union came into effect in 1801.^[2] He was Solicitor-General for Ireland from 1798 to 1799 and Attorney-General for Ireland from 1799 to 1803. He was High Sheriff of County Tyrone in 1809.^[1]

After the Act of Union he was elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom as Tory Member of Parliament (MP) for Tyrone from 1802 to 1806 and 1812 until his death in 1825.^[3]

Stewart married in 1789, Mary, daughter of Mervyn Archdale of Castle Archdale, near Enniskillen, with whom he had two sons and a daughter.^[1]

Driving a two horse carriage while suffering from long term sickness, he was badly injured when his horses bolted and died four days later in June 1825. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his elder son, Hugh.^[1]

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d [1] History of Parliament Online article.
^ "Irish House of Commons 1692–1800". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages. Archived from the original on 1 June 2009. Retrieved 23 November 2009.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^ "House of Commons constituencies beginning with "T" (part 2)". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages. Archived from the original on 15 July 2018. Retrieved 23 November 2009.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

External links[]

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sir John Stewart

Parliament of Ireland
Preceded by Edmond Stanley	Member of Parliament for Augher 1794–1798 With: Edmond Stanley	Succeeded by James Galbraith
Preceded by Sir Joseph Hoare, 1st Bt Henry Alexander	Member of Parliament for Askeaton 1798 With: Sir Joseph Hoare, 1st Bt	Succeeded by Sir Joseph Hoare, 1st Bt Sir Vere Hunt, 1st Bt
Preceded by Richard Cavendish	Member of Parliament for Portarlington 1798 With: Sir John Parnell, 2nd Bt	Succeeded by Frederick Trench Thomas Stannus
Preceded by Henry Pomeroy	Member of Parliament for Strabane 1798 With: Nathaniel Montgomery-Moore	Succeeded by Nathaniel Montgomery-Moore
Preceded by Sir John Blackwood, 2nd Bt John Keane	Member of Parliament for Bangor 1798–1801 With: Hon. Robert Ward	Succeeded by Parliament of the United Kingdom
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Viscount Corry	Member of Parliament for Tyrone 1802–1806 With:	Succeeded by Thomas Knox (1)
Preceded by Thomas Knox (1)	Member of Parliament for Tyrone 1812– With: Thomas Knox (2) to 1818 from 1818	Succeeded by Henry Lowry-Corry
Legal offices
Preceded by John Toler	Solicitor-General for Ireland 1798–1799	Succeeded by William Cusack-Smith
Preceded by John Toler	Attorney-General for Ireland 1799–1803	Succeeded by William Plunket
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Baronet (of Athenree) 1803–1825	Succeeded by Hugh Stewart

[hop-1] [1] History of Parliament Online article.

[rayment-ie-2] "Irish House of Commons 1692–1800". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages. Archived from the original on 1 June 2009. Retrieved 23 November 2009.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

[rayment-hc-3] "House of Commons constituencies beginning with "T" (part 2)". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages. Archived from the original on 15 July 2018. Retrieved 23 November 2009.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

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