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Admiral of the Fleet Sir Houston Stewart, (3 August 1791 – 10 December 1875) was a Royal Navy officer and briefly a Liberal Party Member of Parliament. After serving as a junior officer in the Napoleonic Wars, Stewart became commanding officer of the third-rate HMS ''Benbow'' in the Mediterranean Fleet and took part in the bombardment of Acre during the Egyptian–Ottoman War. He went on to be Captain-Superintendent of Woolwich Dockyard and then Controller-General of the Coastguard. Stewart served as Third Naval Lord before entering the House of Commons as Liberal Party Member of Parliament MP for Greenwich. Following his election he became Second Naval Lord in the First Derby Ministry. However, he stayed at the Admiralty for only a few weeks and lost his seat in Parliament at the next general election. He became Admiral Superintendent of Malta Dockyard and then second-in-command in the Black Sea taking part in the Siege of Sevastopol and commanding the fleet at the capture of Kinburn during the Crimean War. He went on to be Admiral Superintendent of Devonport Dockyard, then Commander-in-Chief, North America and West Indies Station and finally Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth. ==Early career== Born the son of Sir Michael Shaw Stewart, 5th Baronet and Catherine Stewart (daughter of Sir William Maxwell, 3rd Baronet), Stewart joined the Royal Navy in February 1805.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sir Houston Stewart )〕 He was appointed to the fifth-rate HMS ''Medusa'' which was engaged to transport Lord Cornwallis, Governor-General of Bengal, to Calcutta.〔Heathcote, p. 236〕 He transferred to the third-rate HMS ''Revenge'' and took part in the blockade of Brest and then in the action of 25 September 1806 when four French frigates were captured by a squadron commanded by Commodore Sir Samuel Hood during the Napoleonic Wars.〔 He transferred to the fifth-rate HMS ''Imperieuse'', commanded by Captain Thomas Cochrane, in October 1806 and took part in various raids on the Mediterranean coast of France during 1807 and in the defence of Rosas, which was under siege by the French Army, in November 1808.〔 Still in HMS ''Imperieuse'', he saw action again during the attack on Flushing during in the unsuccessful Walcheren Campaign in the Summer of 1809.〔 He transferred to the fourth-rate HMS ''Adamant'' at Leith in November 1809 and to the fifth-rate HMS ''Hussar'' in the Baltic Sea in May 1810.〔 After serving briefly in the first-rate HMS ''Royal William'' at Portsmouth, Stewart was promoted to lieutenant on 1 August 1811 and served in the fifth-rate HMS ''Alexandria'' at Leith and then in the third-rate HMS ''Tigre'' in which he took part in the blockade of Rochefort in Spring 1812.〔 He transferred to the first-rate HMS ''San Josef'', flagship of the Commander-in-Chief, Channel Squadron, in May 1812 and to the first-rate HMS ''Queen Charlotte'', the next flagship of the Commander-in-Chief, Channel Fleet, in January 1813.〔 He became acting commanding officer of the third-rate HMS ''Clarence'' off Brest in March 1814 and acting commanding officer of the sloop HMS ''Podargus'' off Finisterre in June 1814.〔 Promoted to commander on 13 August 1814, Stewart was posted to the Jamaica station where he commanded successively the sloops HMS ''Shark'', HMS ''Royalist'' and HMS ''Rifleman'' and commanded, on an acting basis, the fifth-rate HMS ''Pique'' and then the fourth-rate HMS ''Salisbury''.〔Heathcote, p. 237〕 Promoted to captain on 10 June 1817, he became commanding officer of the sixth-rate HMS ''Menai'' on the North America and West Indies Station in October 1823 and was simultaneously commanding officer of the Halifax Dockyard for much of his tour.〔 At the 1837 general election Stewart stood for Parliament in Renfrewshire, but was unsuccessful.〔Craig, p. 600〕 He became commanding officer of the third-rate HMS ''Benbow'' in the Mediterranean Fleet in April 1839 and took part in the bombardment of Acre in November 1840 during the Egyptian–Ottoman War.〔 For his service in the War he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath on 18 December 1840. He observed the Egyptian withdrawal and then rescued Greek nationalists escaping from Candia following an uprising against the Ottoman Empire.〔 Stewart became Captain-Superintendent of Woolwich Dockyard and Captain of the royal yacht HMY ''William and Mary'' in May 1846 and Controller-General of the Coastguard in November 1846.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Houston Stewart」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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