Weston Henry StewartCBE (15 March 1887 – 30 July 1969) was a British Anglican bishop who served as Archdeacon for Palestine, Syria and Trans-Jordan between 1926 and 1943 and then Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem until 1957.[1]
Stewart was born in 1887 in Bakewell in Derbyshire, the sixth child of Lucy Penelope (née Nesfield; 1850–1939) and Ravenscroft Stewart (1845–1921, priest). He was made a deacon in Advent 1910 (18 December)[2] and ordained a priest the following Advent (24 December 1911) — both times by Arthur Winnington-Ingram, Bishop of London, at St Paul's Cathedral.[3] In 1916 he was appointed Incumbent of Chelsea Old Church.[4] In 1932 he married Margaret A. Clapham at Cambridge. In 1933 Stewart suggested acquiring land together with the British Mandate government for a new municipal cemetery on Mount Scopus next to the British Jerusalem War Cemetery, allowing each different Christian congregation to use a specific section for its burials.[5] From 1938 to 1943 he was the Honorary Chaplain to the Palestine Police Force.
^Collegiate Church of St. George the Martyr (Jerusalem), 'Order of Service for the Enthronement of Weston Henry Stewart as Bishop of the Church of England in Jerusalem and His Installation as Dean of the Collegiate Church - November 8th, 1943' Beyt-ul-Makdes Press (1943)