Robert Leslie Stewart

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Robert Leslie Stewart (1918-1989), from Edinburgh, Scotland, was one of the last executioners in the United Kingdom, officiating between 1950 and 1964.

Stewart performed one of the last executions in the United Kingdom, when, at 8 a.m. on 13 August 1964, he hanged Peter Anthony Allen at Walton Prison in Liverpool, England. Allen had been convicted of the murder of John Alan West; Allen's accomplice, Gwynne Owen Evans, was hanged at Strangeways Prison in Manchester, England, at the same time. He also carried out the last execution in Wales, that of Vivian Teed at Swansea Prison in May 1958 for the murder of a postmaster during a robbery in Swansea. He died in South Africa in November 1989. His first execution was that of Jack Wright at Manchester Prison in July 1951.

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