STEWART, Charles James, Canadian Anglican bishop, born at Galloway House, Wigtonshire, Scotland, 13 April, 1775; died in London, England, 13 July, 1837. He was the fifth son of John, seventh Earl of Galloway, was educated at home and at Oxford, where he was graduated in 1799, and the same year was ordained in the Church of England. He was first settled as a pastor at Orton Longueville and Botolph Bridge, near Peterborough, in 1799, where he remained eight years, and soon afterward, having offered himself to the Society for the propagation of the gospel, he was appointed to the mission of St. Armand, Eastern townships, Lower Canada. There was no church in his mission, but he erected one at his own expense. In 1819 he was appointed a visiting missionary in the diocese of Quebec, which then included the whole of Canada, and suffered much hardship in travelling over a vast extent of sparsely settled country, without roads or adequate means of conveyance. On the death of Bishop Mountain in 1825, Dr. Stewart was nominated to the see of Quebec as his successor, and he was consecrated on 1 January, 1826, by Archbishop Sutton, at Lambeth palace. In May, 1827, Bishop Stewart returned to Quebec and was installed in the cathedral of that city. Henceforth till his death he was unwearied in advancing the interests of his church and the cause of Christianity in general. While he was in Canada he spent the whole of his private fortune in the service of the church and in charity, and promoted the erection of many churches in various parts of the country. In 1817 Oxford gave him the degree of D.D. He published " Short View of the Eastern Townships in Lower Canada" (London, 1817). See "The Stewart Missions, a Series of Letters and Journals, with a Brief Memoir of Bishop Stewart," edited by Reverend W. J. D. Waddilove, A. M. (London, 1838), and "Life of Bishop Stewart." by the Rev. John N. Norton (1859).