Author: Stewart, Charles Edward
Biography:
STEWART, Charles Edward (1752-1819: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 23 Jan. 1752 at Long Melford, Suffolk, the son of Giles Stewart and Ann Hammond, who had married in 1738. He was educated at Long Melford grammar school, Christ’s College Cambridge (Pensioner 1767, matric. 1768, BA 1771), and Magdalen College Oxford (MA 1773), and was ordained deacon (1773) and priest (1786). He was rector of Courteenhall, Northants. (1773-95), Wakes Colne, Essex (1795-1819), and Rede, Suffolk (1807-19). He married Anne Alethea Wallin (1757-96), probably in 1775. She was the daughter of Richard Wallin, owner of the Litchfield estate at St. Thomas-in-the-Vale, Jamaica. Her mother died in 1758 and her father moved to America, sending her to England to be brought up. Since she would still have been a minor on marriage, it is unclear who gave consent or whether the marriage was clandestine (irregular). They went on to have at least ten children. She died in June 1796. He later married Hannah Bassett (1760-1838) on 13 Feb. 1817 at Long Melford. There does not appear to have been further issue. He died on 7 Oct. 1819 and was buried at Holy Trinity, Long Melford, where there is still a family gravestone. In 1816 he collected his political verse which consisted of long poems – The Regicide, The Foxiad and the The Aliad--but they received little contemporary comment and no modern critical attention. His political tracts, Observations on the Conduct of Mr Fox (1794) and A Letter to Mr Sheridan (1794) are also rarely read and his sermon, Obedience to Government, Reverence to the Constitution, and Resistance to Buonaparte (1803), articulates standard anti-Jacobin positions. (Copsey 1: 458; ancestry.co.uk 10 Apr. 2023; findmypast.co.uk 10 Apr. 2023; CCEd 10 Apr. 2023; LBS; Stamford Mercury 24 June 1796; OUCH 22 Feb. 1817, 16 Feb. 1819) AA
Other Names:
- C. E. Stewart