Weston Stewart

Weston Henry Stewart

The Right Reverend Weston Henry Stewart MA (15 March 1887 – September 1969) was the Anglican Archdeacon for Palestine, Syria and Trans-Jordan between 1926 and 1943. From 1943 to 1957 he was the Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem.^[1]

Stewart was born in 1887 in Bakewell in Derbyshire, the sixth child of Lucy Penelope (née Nesfield) (1850–1939) and the Rev. Ravenscroft Stewart (1845-1921). In 1916 he was appointed Incumbent of Chelsea Old Church.^[2] In 1932 he married Margaret A. Clapham at Cambridge. 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.^[3] 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^[4] and Dean of the Collegiate Church of St George the Martyr in Jerusalem following the sudden death of Francis Graham Brown in a car accident in November 1942.^[5] Because of World War II he found it difficult to travel to London for his consecration, which was held on 8 November 1943.^[6] 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. On 16 November 1956 Stewart consecrated and dedicated the newly built St Paul's Anglican Church in Kuwait.^[7]

Stewart died in 1969 at Oakham, Rutland in England.

Publications

• Stewart, Weston Henry 'Chelsea Old Church', J. B. Sears & Sons, London (1926)

References

External links

• Stewart Catalogue Records in National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives