STEWART, FRANCIS EDWARD (1833-1904) was born at Clifton, England, the son of Captain Thomas Stewart, R.N., with whom he came to Van Diemen's Land in his own ship, the Anna Watson, in 1839. In 1847 he accompanied the Barney expedition to found the Gladstone colony, and he was in the wreck of the Lord Auckland on Facing Island. For some time he was in the chambers of Robert Lowe (afterwards Lord Sherbrooke). In 1849 he came to Auckland in the service of the Union Bank, of which he became Auckland manager in 1854. In 1856 he opened the Christchurch branch. Returning to New Zealand in 1863 from a two years' visit to England, he married Agnes, daughter of Robert Park (q.v.). He represented Rakaia in the Provincial Council (1865-66) and Papanui (1866-68), being provincial treasurer and for a while deputy superintendent. In 1869 Stewart sold his Racecourse Hill property and returned to Sydney, where he became chief inspector of the National Bank in 1879. He was for some years till 1891 general manager of Goldsborough, Mort and Co., and later managing director of Younghusband, Row and Co. He died on 10 Jul 1904.

Family information; Parltry Record; Canterbury P.C. Proc. and Gaz.; Col. Gent.

Reference: Volume 2, page 169

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