page_title: John Stewart (of Livingstone)
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: John Stewart (of Livingstone) / Life
caption_attribution_description: was Black Bull Inn and now Brown Sugar Cafe in Canongate in Jedburgh
context_page_description: Colonel John Stewart was a Scottish professional soldier, first in the Scottish Army and then in the British Army. He served with the army in Scotland, France and Flanders, and held a seat in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1708 to 1715.
  He lived at Hartrigge House in Jedburgh and he was killed in 1726 in a drunken fight with a Member of Parliament.
context_section_description: Stewart's early life is unclear. He appears to be the son of William Stewart of Livingstone, but the evidence is uncertain.
  He joined the army some time after the Glorious Revolution, but his early military career is also obscure. He probably served with the Scots Greys, and may have been the Captain John Stewart ‘of Galloway’ who joined Brigadier-General William Stewart's regiment in 1695. The first confirmed fact of his military career is that in 1707 he became a Lieutenant-Colonel in the regiment newly raised by Alexander Grant.
  From 1708 he served in Flanders with the Duke of Marlborough, returning periodically to Scotland, where he had been elected in 1708 at the first general election to the new Parliament of Great Britain.  In a contest assisted by his opponent being jailed as a suspected Jacobite, Stewart was returned as the MP for Kirkcudbright Stewartry.
  Returning to Scotland two years later for the 1710 election, he was captured from his ship by a French privateer. Released on parole, he was re-elected in the Stewartry, but negotiations with the French proved slow and he was not fully cleared until late 1711.
  Re-elected in 1713, Stewart was classified as a Whig. He was not a very active member of the House of Commons, and stood down at the 1715 election. He had gone to half-pay in the army in 1713.
caption: This was the Black Bull Inn
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