Background
Stewart was born in 1887 in Bakewell in Derbyshire, the sixth child of Lucy Penelope (née Nesfield) (1850–1939) and the Review Ravenscroft Stewart (1845-1921).
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From 1943 to 1957 he was the Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem. In 1916 he was appointed Incumbent of Chelsea Old Church. In 1933 Stewart suggested acquiring land together with the British Mandate government for a new municipal cemetery on Mount Scopus next to the British Jerusalem War Cemetery, allowing each different Christian congregation to use a specific section for its burials.
From 1938 to 1943 he was the Honorary Chaplain to the Palestine Police Force.
In 1943 he was appointed the seventh Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem and Dean of the Collegiate Church of Street George the Martyr in Jerusalem following the sudden death of Francis Graham Brown in a car accident in November 1942. Because of World World War II he found it difficult to travel to London for his consecration, which was held on 8 November 1943.
In 1952, assisted by the former diplomat Stewart Perowne, he was involved in designing and organising model villages for Palestinian Arabs who had been made refugees as a result of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Stewart died in 1969 at Oakham, Rutland in England.
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The Right