fought at the battles of the Nive, Orthez and Toulouse during Wellington's 1814 invasion of southern France. Awards, thanks and retirement For his services in the Peninsula Stewart received the Gold Cross with two clasps, the Portuguese Order of the Tower and Sword, and the Spanish Order of San Fernando. On 2 January 1815 (on the enlargement of the order of the Bath) he received the G.C.B. Stewart had been M.P. for Saltash in 1795, and for Wigtonshire from 1796 onward, and on 24 June 1814 the speaker thanked him in his place, on behalf of the house, for his share in the victories of Vittoria and Orthes, and in the intermediate operations. Stewart saw no further service. His health was broken by seventeen campaigns, in which he had received six wounds and four contusions, and in 1816 he resigned his seat in parliament. In July 1818 he was transferred to the colonelcy of the 1st Battalion of what had then become the Rifle Brigade. He settled at Cumloden on the borders of Wigton and Kirkcudbrightshire, near the family seat. He died there on 7 January 1827, and was buried at Minigaff. Family In 1804 Stewart married Frances, daughter of the Hon. John Douglas (second son of the Earl of Morton), and he left one son, Horatio, a captain in the Rifle Brigade, and one daughter, Louisa. Notes References Attribution: Endnotes: The Cumloden Papers, printed for private circulation in 1871, containing a memoir, with extracts from Stewart's journals, and correspondence with Nelson and Wellington Cope's Hist. of the Rifle Brigade Verner's The first British Rifle Corps Gent. Mag. 1827, i. 175 Royal Military Calendar, ii. 322 Wellington Despatches Napier's War in the Peninsula Beresford's Further Strictures on the War in the Peninsula, p. 159. Further reading |- 1774 births 1827 deaths British Army commanders of the Napoleonic Wars Tory MPs (pre-1834) Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for constituencies in Cornwall Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Scottish constituencies British MPs 1790–1796 British MPs 1796–1800 Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies UK MPs 1801–1802 UK MPs 1802–1806 UK MPs 1812–1818 Younger sons of earls 42nd Regiment of Foot officers British Army generals 67th Regiment of Foot officers British Army personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars Rifle Brigade officers