Robert Christie Stewart
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Colonel Sir Robert "Bobby" Christie Stewart KCVO CBE TD (1926 – 25 September 2019) was a Scottish landowner who had a military career in the British Army and was a Lord Lieutenant of two counties in Scotland.[1] He was generally referred to in the community as R. C. Stewart.
Stewart was born on 3 August 1926.[2] He was the son of Major Alexander Caldwell Stewart and Florence Hamilton Lighton.[3] He was educated at Eton College and University College, Oxford, where he read Agriculture and Forest Science.[4]
Career
Stewart served in the Scots Guards.[4] He was awarded the Territorial Decoration (TD). He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). He was appointed Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO).[3] He then returned to his family estate at Arndean[5] near Blairingone in Scotland.[6][7] Stewart held the office of Lord Lieutenant of Kinross-shire between 1966 and 1974. Later, he was Lord Lieutenant of Clackmannanshire during 1995–2001.[8]
