Alan Stewart, 10th Earl of Galloway
Alan Stewart, 10th Earl of Galloway | |
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Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland | |
In office 1876-1877 | |
Member of Parliament for Wigtownshire | |
In office 1868-1873 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 21 October 1835 |
Died | 7 February 1901 | (aged 65)
Spouse | |
Children | 1+ |
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Alan Plantagenet Stewart, 10th Earl of Galloway, KT, DL, JP (21 October 1835 – 7 February 1901), styled Lord Garlies until 1873, was a British peer and politician.
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Background
[edit]Galloway was the eldest son of Randolph Stewart, 9th Earl of Galloway, and Lady Harriett Blanche, daughter of Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort. He was educated at Harrow School.[citation needed]
Cricket
[edit]He played first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club between 1858 and 1864.[1]
Public life
[edit]Galloway sat as Member of Parliament for Wigtownshire between 1868 and 1873. The latter year he succeeded to his father's earldom and estates, including the family seats of Galloway House and Cumloden House, and entered the House of Lords.[citation needed]
He was also Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland from 1876 to 1877 and a justice of the peace and deputy lieutenant for Kirkcudbrightshire and Wigtownshire. In 1887 he was appointed a Knight of the Thistle.[citation needed]
Personal life
[edit]Lord Galloway married Lady Arabella Arthur, daughter of James Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury, in 1872 (he was consequently the brother-in-law of Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury). Their daughter, Helen Stewart, married Neo-Jacobite Walter Clifford Mellor.[2] Lord Galloway died in February 1901, aged 65, and was succeeded in the earldom by his younger brother, Randolph. Lady Galloway died in August 1903.
On 14 October 1889, The Earl of Galloway appeared in Dumfries Sheriff Court on a charge of indecent behaviour towards a young girl. He was found 'not guilty'.[citation needed]
On 23 January 1890, the Earl of Galloway appeared again in court, Glasgow Central Police Court, charged with having been 'riotous, disorderly or indecent' in his behaviour, by accosting, following and molesting Margaret Brown and one or more female passengers. The charge was found 'not proven'.[citation needed]
He owned 79,000 acres in Scotland.[3]
Ancestry
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References
[edit]- ^ "Player profile: Alan Plantagenet Stewart". CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 August 2011.
- ^ Fletcher, Ian (1987). W.B. Yeats and his contemporaries. Harvester. ISBN 978-0-7108-0613-0.
- ^ The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [self-published source] [better source needed]
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
External links
[edit]- 1835 births
- 1901 deaths
- People educated at Harrow School
- Earls of Galloway
- Lords High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies
- UK MPs 1868–1874
- UK MPs who inherited peerages
- Knights of the Thistle
- Politics of Dumfries and Galloway
- 19th-century Scottish politicians
- Scottish cricketers
- Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
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- Gentlemen of England cricketers
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