STEWART, Sir Francis (c.1589-1635), of Westminster

Family and Education

b. c.1589, 2nd s. of James, 2nd earl of Moray [S] (d.1592) and Elizabeth, suo jure Countess of Moray, da. and coh. of James, 1st earl of Moray, Regent of Scotland 1567-70.Scots Peerage, vi. 318. educ. Christ Church, Oxf. 1604, aged 15, BA 1606, MA 1616.Al. Ox. unm. ; 1da. illegit.PROB 11/168, f. 197. cr. KB 2 June 1610.Shaw, Knights of Eng. i. 158. d. Jan. 1635.Strafforde Letters (1739) ed. W. Knowler, i. 358.

Offices Held

Cupbearer by 1616–25;Lansd. 273, f. 28. gent. of the privy chamber 1625–d.SP16/2/118; LC5/134, p. 85.

Kpr. Windsor Forest, Berks. 1616–d.;CSP Dom. 1611–18, p. 394. freeman, Portsmouth, Hants 1622.R. East, Portsmouth Recs. 349.

Capt. RN 1618,Ath. Ox. iii. 521; M. Butler, ‘Sir Francis Stewart: Jonson’s overlooked patron’, Ben Jonson Jnl. ii. 110, 123. v.-adm. 1621,HMC Cowper, i. 114. adm. 1623,CSP Dom. 1619–23, pp. 558–60; Chamberlain Letters ed. N.E. McClure, ii. 491, 497; HMC Mar and Kellie, ii. 162, 178. r.-adm. 1625;SP16/187/65; HMC Cowper, i. 201, 206, 209–10. v.-adm. under the 2nd earl of Warwick (Sir Robert Rich*), privateering expedition 1627.CSP Dom. 1627–8, p. 143.

Parlimentarian

STEWART, Sir Francis (c.1589-1635), of Westminster

Main residence: Westminster.

Author

A.D.

R.C.L.S.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

STEWART, Sir Francis (c.1589-1635)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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