page_title: Hugh Fraser Stewart
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Hugh Fraser Stewart / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: St John the Evangelist's parish church, Little Gidding, Cambridgeshire (formerly Huntingdonshire), seen from the northwest in snow
context_page_description: Hugh Fraser Stewart was a British academic, churchman and literary critic.
context_section_description: He was the second son of Ludovic(k) Charles Stewart, an army surgeon and son of Ludovick Stewart of Pityvaich, and Emma Ray or Rae. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1883, where he graduated B.A. in 1886. He then taught as an assistant master at Marlborough College, from 1889 to 1895, and as housemaster of C1 from 1893. He was ordained in 1894, and was vice-principal of Salisbury Theological College, from 1895 to 1899. He became chaplain of Trinity College in 1900, for a year.
  Stewart was elected a Fellow and became Dean of St John's College, Cambridge, in 1907. A meeting at H. M. Chadwick's house in 1916, with Stewart and Arthur Quiller-Couch, was significant in the launching of the Cambridge English Tripos. Stewart moved to Trinity College in 1918, where he became Praelector in French.
  In 1919 Stewart became a Fellow of Eton College, and in 1922 Reader in French.
  Close to Paul Desjardins, whom he met through Jacques Raverat in 1913, Stewart took part at the meetings of the Décades de Pontigny.
  On 23 May 1936 Hugh and Jessie Stewart took T. S. Eliot to Little Gidding, a visit that had been proposed a decade earlier by Jessie. Eliot's interest had been aroused by a play he had been given to read by George Every, dealing with the contact Charles I of England had had with the Little Gidding community in 1646.
caption: St John's Church at Little Gidding, visited by the Frasers and T. S. Eliot in 1936
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