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SIR WILLIAM STEWART (c. 1540—c. 1605)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 915 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR WILLIAM STEWART (c. 1540—c. 1605)  , Scottish politician, began
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life as a soldier in the
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Netherlands, where he became a colonel and entered into communications with Lord Burghley on the progress of affairs . In the
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year 1582 he was in Scotland, where James VI. made him captain of his guard . Having visited the
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English court in the king's
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interest in 1583, Stewart helped to
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free James from William
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Ruthven,
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earl of Gowrie, and to restore James Stewart, earl of Arran, to power; he was made a privy councillor and for a time assisted Arran to govern Scotland . In 1584 he captured Gowrie at Dundee . In 1585 he and Arran lost their power, and Stewart went to Denmark and France on secret errands for the king . He commanded the
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ships which conveyed James and his bride Anne from Denmark in 1590, and the same year was sent on an
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embassy to the German princes . Twice he went on missions to the Netherlands, and in 1594 he was knighted and was given lands at Houston . He died before 1606 . His only son, Frederick (c . 1590-1625), who was created a peer as Lord Pittenweem in 16og, died childless in December 1625 .
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Sir William Stewart of Houston is often confused with Sir William Stewart of Monkton (d . 1588), a
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brother of James Stewart, earl of Arran, who was killed in a fight in
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Edinburgh in
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July 1588, and also with Sir William Stewart of Caverstoun .

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