 On 28 July 1927 , Stewart married Margaret Rosamond Poulton at <unk> , Shropshire , England . The marriage was brief ; she , along with the couple 's baby son , died during childbirth in August 1928 . In 1929 Stewart was appointed principal of University College of Nottingham , later to become the University of Nottingham . In a history of the University of Canterbury , published in 1973 , the authors wrote that Stewart was the " most able leader and administrator ... the College [ of Nottingham ] ever had " . The year after his move to Nottingham , Stewart married Margaret Isabel Massey in London . The couple had two children , a daughter and a son . 
