Identity area
Type of entity
Authorized form of name
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
History
STEWART, GEORGE, 8TH EARL OF GALLOWAY (S), second son of John Stewart, 7th Earl of Galloway (S) KT, Lord of the Bedchamber, and his second wife Anne, dau. of Sir James Dashwood, Bart., MP; b. 24 Mar 1768; styled Lord Garlies 1773 (?) -1806; adm. 19 Jan 1780; in school list Oct 1780; entered Royal Navy Mar 1780, as Midshipman on HMS Berwick; Lieut., 8 Aug 1789; Cdr., 19 Nov 1790; Capt., 30 Apr 1793; Rear-Adm., 31 Jul 1810; Vice-Adm. 12 Aug 1819; Adm. 22 Jul 1830; served under Lord Hood in 1793; commanded HMS Lively at battle of Copenhagen; MP Saltash 1790 – Feb 1795, Cockermouth 22 Jul 1805-6, Haslemere 1806 – 13 Nov 1806; a Lord of the Admiralty 2 May 1805 – Feb 1806; succ. father as 8th Earl of Galloway (S) 13 Nov 1806; Lord Lieut. Kirkcudbright Stewartry 26 Dec 1794 - Mar 1807, Wigtownshire 28 Mar 1807 – Jul 1828, Kirkcudbright Stewartry 15 Jun 1820 – Jul 1828; KT 23 May 1814; m. 18 Apr 1797 Lady Jane Paget, sister of Henry William Paget, 1st Marquis of Anglesey (qv); d. 27 Mar 1834.
Places
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Mandates/sources of authority
Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
Related entity
Identifier of related entity
Category of relationship
Type of relationship
Dates of relationship
Description of relationship
Access points area
Subject access points
Place access points
Occupations
Control area
Authority record identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
Language(s)
Script(s)
Sources
Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.