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Sir Henry Seton Steuart FRSE LLD (né Steuart; 20 October 1759 – 11 March 1836) was a Scottish landowner, agricultural improver, soldier and classical scholar. BiographyHe was born Henry Steuart at Allanton House in Lanarkshire in 1759, the son of James Steuart, 10th Laird of Allanton and his wife, Margaret Steuart-Barclay of Collairnie.[1] They were descended from Sir John Stewart of Bonkyll. Henry was educated at the High School in Edinburgh then studied in Hamburg in Germany (1775).[2] In 1778 he was commissioned into the 13th Light Dragoons. In 1781 he moved to the 10th Light Dragoons. He resigned his commission in 1787. In 1799 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Alexander Fraser Tytler, Andrew Dalzell and Thomas Charles Hope. In 1806 Edinburgh University awarded him an honorary doctorate (LLD).[3] In 1814 he was created Baronet of Allanton. Sir Walter Scott visited him at Allanton to see his land improvements in January 1829.[4] He died at Allanton in 1836 and was buried nearby in Cambusnethan Churchyard. FamilyIn 1787 he married Lillian Seton, daughter of Hugh Seton of Touch House in Stirlingshire (sometimes known as Touch-Seton). He was thereafter known as Henry Seton Steuart. He rebuilt Allanton House in the year of his marriage.[5] They had one daughter, Elizabeth Margaret Steuart (1790-1866). She married Reginald Ranald Macdonald, from 1836 known as Sir Reginald Ranald Seton-Steuart. Sir Reginald was created 2nd Baronet through the marriage.[6] Publications
Artistic RecognitionHe was portrayed by Edward Burton.[7] References1. ^http://www.thepeerage.com/p50365.htm#i503646 {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Steuart, Henry Seton}}2. ^Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Henry Seton Steuart 3. ^{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0 902 198 84 X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf}} 4. ^https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Steuart,_Henry_Seton_(DNB00) 5. ^http://www.bonkle.org.uk/allanton.html 6. ^http://www.thepeerage.com/p50365.htm#i503648 7. ^https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/37143/sir-henry-seton-steuart-allanbank-1759-1836 6 : 1759 births|1836 deaths|People from Lanarkshire|Peers of Scotland|Scottish agriculturalists|Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |
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