page_title: Sir Michael Shaw-Stewart, 6th Baronet
section_title: Family Images
hierarchical_section_title: Sir Michael Shaw-Stewart, 6th Baronet / Family Images
caption_attribution_description: English: Sir Michael Shaw-Stewart 1788-1836, Member of Parliament for Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire and 6th Baronet.
context_page_description: Sir Michael Shaw-Stewart, 6th Baronet was a Scottish politician, Member of Parliament for Lanarkshire 1827-1830 and Renfrewshire 1830-1836.
  He was the son of Sir Michael Shaw Stewart, 5th Baronet 1766-1825 and the father of Sir Michael Shaw-Stewart, 7th Baronet 1826-1903. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he befriended Robert Peel, becoming a lifelong political supporter of his.
  Whilst the Ardgowan House estate has been owned by the Stewart family since the 15th century, the present house dates from 1797 and remains the seat of the Shaw Stewarts, whose baronetcy of Nova Scotia was conferred by King Charles II on Archibald Stewart of Blackhall in 1667.
  Michael Shaw Stewart, who, like so many young gentlemen at the time, took advantage of France's defeat in 1814 to visit the continent. The Treaty of Fontainebleau signed on 11 April 1814 marked the immediate abdication of Napoleon and the end of the embargo on British goods known as the Continental Blockade, suddenly making it much more congenial for the British to visit Europe once more, resurrecting the tradition of The Grand Tour.
context_section_description: Etching of his father the 5th Baronet by Samuel Cousins after the Sir Henry Raeburn painting:
caption: Sir Michael Shaw Stewart 5th Baronet wearing his hunting jacket from the Royal Caledonian Hunt
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