CASTLE STEWART, Rt Hon 8th Earl 1928-2023
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He was s of 7th Earl CASTLE STEWART 1889-1961 and
Eleanor May GUGGENHEIM d 1992. He m 1st Edna d 2003 d of William
Edward FOWLER and had a son and a dau. He m 2nd 2004 Gillian d of Frederick
William SAVILL of Blaby, Leics. His son succeeds him.
ANDREW RICHARD CHARLES Stuart 9th Earl CASTLE
STEWART b 7 Oct 1953 has yet to establish his claim. He m 1st 1973
(div 2002) Annie Yvette d of Robert LE POULAIN and had a dau. He m 2nd
2009 Carol Ann REID.
NEPHEWS LIVING OF 8th EARL (sons of Hon Simon
Walter Erskine STUART 1930-2002)
THOMAS HARRY ERSKINE b 1974
Corin Edward Leveson b 1975
Tristram James Avondale b 1977 m 2001 Alice Mary Albinia d of Robert Ian Finlayson MATHERS.
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I think this is incorrect. Sir Walter, Master of Fife, Lennox and Menteith, grandson of Robert, Duke of Albany, was beheaded at Stirling 24 May 1425; he apparently had issue, though some sources listed all his children as being those of his younger brother, James (and if they were James's, his issue were also considered illegitimate], including:
Walter, legitimized 1472 and 1479; he was grandfather of the 1st Lord Avandale and ancestor of the Castle Stewarts.
Scots Peerage, sub Albany, says of Walter, Master of Fife:
"He had a papal
dispensation on 26 April 1421 for marriage with Janet,
daughter of Sir Robert Erskine, but it is probable it
was never celebrated. By a lady of the name of
Campbell he had apparently two natural sons, Andrew,
Lord Avondale (see that title), and Arthur, and,
possibly by Janet Erskine, another son, Walter of
Morphie, from whom descend the Earls of Castle
Stewart in Ireland. These three sons were legiti
mated 17 April 1479."
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CASTLE STEWART, ARTHUR PATRICK AVONDALE STUART (PAT) - 8th Earl Castle Stewart, died peacefully, on Tuesday 21st November 2023, aged 95. Memorial Service to be held on the 6th of January 2024, at 2:00pm in St Patrick's Church, Donaghendry, 14 North Street, Stewartstown, BT71 5JG.
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Earl Castle Stewart, unconventional peer who helped to run the Guggenheim art empire – obituary
An ardent disciple of Rudolf Steiner, he noted: ‘There can’t be too many people who became anthroposophist on the playing fields of Eton’
Patrick Stuart, the 8th Earl Castle Stewart, who has died aged 95, was among the last living peers to have inherited their titles as a result of older brothers being killed in action in the Second World War. In Patrick’s case, two of his older brothers were killed – David in 1942 in the second battle at Al Alamein and Robert in 1944 at Anzio, making him Viscount Stuart and his father’s heir. In fact, a generation earlier, his father, the 7th Earl, also a third son, had succeeded his father after the death of two brothers in the Great War.
Despite the sense of unpreparedness and inadequacy often felt by a younger son, Patrick – who succeeded his father in 1961 – was buoyed by the family motto “FORWARD”, and devoted his life to a number of causes and enterprises, only some of which he inherited.
Most unconventionally, he was an ardent disciple of Rudolf Steiner from the age of 17, which informed much of what he did, from his faith to biodynamic farming and community banking. As he put it, “I have tended to feel myself as a sort of bridge between the orthodoxy in which I was brought up and have never fully discarded and the philosophy of Steiner with its application in the world, which is much more radical.”
His mother was a scion of the American art-collecting dynasty the Guggenheims, and Patrick served on the board of the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in New York, the famous spiral on Fifth Avenue designed by Frank Lloyd Wright; until 1997, he served as vice-president of trustees. He was also on the advisory board of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, created by the American heiress, who was his mother’s first cousin.
Peggy’s extraordinary 1960 memoir, Out of This Century, boasting of a prodigious love life (an estimated 400 lovers), had so scandalised the family that it was said they had tried to buy up all the copies before they hit the streets. US reviews were savage. One paper proposed an alternate title “Out of My Head”. Subsequent assessments have suggested the memoir disproportionately tarnished the reputation of the woman who had a legitimate claim to be one of the great heroines of 20th century……
Arthur Patrick Avondale Stuart was born on 18 August 1928, the third son of the 7th Earl of Castle Stewart, then Unionist MP for Harborough, and Eleanor, the eldest daughter of Solomon Guggenheim, one of the seven sons of Meyer Guggenheim. Solomon had founded the Yukon Gold Company and had begun to build a vast collection of avant-garde paintings with the proceeds.
Pre- and post-war, Patrick visited his “Gramps” on Long Island, at his Idaho ranch and in New York, where he recalled the famous suite at the Plaza Hotel – its walls covered with Kandinskys, Klees, Picassos, Modiglianis and Bauers, on which Hilla von Rebay, his grandfather’s formidable advisor and curator, instructed Patrick…..
The Earldom, created in 1800, in the peerage of Ireland, elevated the 9th Baron Castle Stewart. In 2013 Patrick lent his DNA to a University of Strathclyde study that confirmed his descent from Walter Stewart, one of Robert the Bruce’s generals and 6th High Steward of Scotland, born in 1296. Their direct descent from Robert Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, younger son of Robert II of Scotland, gave the Earls Castle Stewart a claim to be the senior representatives in the pure male line of the Royal House of Stuart…..
The family had not lived in Northern Ireland since 1914. The 7th Earl had wanted to give Stuart Hall to the National Trust but James Lees Milne passed it over as the top floor had been removed, disfiguring its Georgian lines. During the Second World War, it was used for homeless Catholic mothers and their children from Belfast. Patrick had not visited Stuart Hall until 1948. He continued to visit regularly, and throughout the Troubles; he never gave up on peace, but in 1972 the IRA blew up the house, believing the British were to use it as a base.
Its sturdy walls continued to stand but it was demolished in 1987 and a bungalow built in its stead, which Patrick and his second wife made their home….
In 1952 he married Edna Fowler, a Birmingham-born nurse whom he met at a Steiner home for children. She died in 2003. In 2004, he married secondly Gillian Savill, formerly an employee of the BBC World Service, whom he had met on a Guggenheim Museum visit in 1995. She survives him, along with two children of his first marriage, a daughter, Bridget, and a son, Andrew, who succeeds as the 9th Earl.
Patrick Stuart, 8th Earl Castle Stewart, born August 18 1928, died on November 21 2023
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Earldom of Castle Stewart in the Peerage of Ireland The Lord Chancellor reported that Andrew Richard Charles Stuart (otherwise known as Viscount Stuart) had established his claim to the Earldom of Castle Stewart in the Peerage of Ireland.