Richard Steward

Richard Steward or Stewart (1593? – 1651) was an English royalist churchman,

Dean of St. Paul's

and Westminster, though not able to take up his position because of the wartime circumstances.

Life

He was baptised at

All Souls' College

, and in 1622 served in the office of proctor.

Having taken orders, he became rector of

clerk of the closet

to Charles I in 1636, and two years later he received an annuity of £100 from the royal exchequer.

On 24 December 1639, on the nomination of the king, who dispensed with the statutory obligation requiring membership of the foundation, Steward became Provost of

commendam

.

Steward was held in high favour by Charles I. In January 1645 he, together with five other divines, was sent by the king to the

James, Duke of York's favour. He followed the Duke from Paris to Brussels, but returned to Paris in 1651, and John Evelyn

heard him preach on 21 July.

Steward died at Paris on 14 November 1651. He was buried in the Protestant cemetery near Saint-Germain-des-Prés. He had married a daughter of Sir William Button of Tockenham, Wiltshire, and left two sons: Charles (1666^{[citation needed]}–1735), and Knightley Steward (1673^{[citation needed]}–1746), both of whom were beneficed clergymen.

Works

Steward supplied Edward Hyde with some materials for his

History of the Rebellion

, particularly regarding the Uxbridge conference.

Steward published:

'Three Sermons,' 1656^{[after his death?]}; reissued in 1658 with a fourth by Samuel Harsnett, and an 'Epistle to the Reader,' by T. H.
'Catholique Divinity; or the most solid and sententious expressions of the Primitive Doctors of the Church, with other Ecclesiastical and Civil Authors,' &c., 1657, (prefatory remarks by H. M.).
'Trias Sacra: a second ternary of Sermons,' 1659; reissued as 'Golden Remains, being the last and best Monuments that are likely to be made publick,' 1660.
'A Discourse of Episcopacy and Sacrilege,' 1683; originally printed in 1647 as an answer to a 'Letter to Dr. Samuel Turner' by John Fountaine.

'The Old Puritan detected and defeated,' 1689, is also attributed to him by the printer Sherlock; it was an attempt to prove that the fifty-fifth canon of James I did not favour extempore prayers.

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Steward, Richard". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

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