Ravenscroft Stewart

Ravenscroft Stewart was an eminent Anglican priest in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.^[1]

Stewart was born in Newton Stewart on 23 June 1845, educated at Loretto; Uppingham and Trinity College, Cambridge^[2] and ordained in 1870.^[3] After a curacy in Bakewell he was Rector of Pleasley from 1871 to 1883; Vicar of All Saints Ennismore Gardens^[4] from 1884 to 1909; Archdeacon of Bristol from 1904 to 1910; and Archdeacon of North Wilts from 1910 to^[5] 1919.

He died at home in Burnham-on-sea on 16 August 1921.^[6] His brother, also a clergyman,^[7] was a member of the Wanderers team which won the FA Cup in 1873; and his son was Bishop of Jerusalem from 1943 to 1957.^[8]

References

↑ ‘STEWART, Rev. Ravenscroft’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 29 April 2013
↑ UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE .Cambridge Dec 10 Leeds Mercury (Leeds, England), Saturday, December 12, 1868; Issue 9569
↑ ‘GENERAL ORDINATIONS LICHFIELD’ The Morning Post (London, England), Tuesday, December 20, 1870; pg. 6; Issue 30275
↑ Victorian Web
↑ ”The Clergy List” London, Kelly’s, 1913
↑ The Rev. Ravenscroft Stewart The Times (London, England), Saturday, Aug 20, 1921; pg. 11; Issue 42804
↑ thePeerage.com
↑ Library of New Zealand

Archdeacons of North Wilts, of Swindon and of Malmesbury

North Wilts	Hemming Robeson Ravenscroft Stewart

Swindon	Reginald Talbot Ronald Ramsay Leonard Cornwell Cyril Bowles Freddy Temple Jeffrey Maples Kenneth Clark Michael Middleton Alan Hawker (became Archdeacon of Malmesbury)

Malmesbury	Alan Hawker (previously Archdeacon of Swindon) Christine Froude

Diocese of Bristol

Bristol Cathedral Bishop's Office, Bristol Hillside House, Bristol

Office holders	The Bishop of Bristol, Mike Hill The Bishop suffragan of Swindon, Lee Rayfield AEO: Jonathan Goodall, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet The Dean of Bristol, David Hoyle The Archdeacon of Malmesbury & Acting Archdeacon of Bristol, Christine Froude

Historic offices	Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol (1836–1897; see Diocese of Gloucester and Bristol) Bishop suffragan of Malmesbury (1927–1994; renamed to Swindon) Archdeacon of Dorset (1542–1836; returned to Salisbury) Archdeacon of North Wilts (1904–1919; renamed to Swindon) Archdeacon of Swindon (1919–1999; renamed to Malmesbury)

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