STEUART (STEWART), William (1686-1768), of Weyland and Seatter, Orkney.

Family and Education

b. 25 May 1686, o. s. of Thomas Steuart, commissary and stewart clerk of Orkney, by his 2nd w. Isobel, da. of Andrew Young of Castle Yards, Orkney. educ. Aberdeen Univ. (King’s Coll.) 1701; adv. 1707. m. 30 Apr. 1741, Frances, da. of Dr George Cheyne of Bath, Somerset, s.p. Scot. Rec. Soc. lxxvi. 199.

Offices Held

Principal clerk of treasury and exchequer [S] 1705–8; jt. King’s remembrancer in exchequer [S] 1708–d.; sec. for Scotland to the Prince of Wales 1714–27; paymaster of pensions 1731–42; overseer of King’s swans by 1739. Gent. Mag. 1739, p. 307.

Burgess, Kirkwall 1710. Orkney Lib. Kirkwall burgh recs. K1/1/4, f. 174, council mins. 27 Oct. 1710.

Parlimentarian

STEUART, William (1686-1768), of Weyland and Seatter, Orkney.

Main residence: Weyland and Seatter, Orkney.

STEWART

Author

D.W.

Volume

Commons 1690-1715

Web Title

STEUART, William (1686-1768)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

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