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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Andrew Stewart
(died 1541) was a 16th century Scottish noble and cleric. He was the
legitimate son of John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl and Eleanor Sinclair,
daughter of William Sinclair, Earl of Orkney. His paternal grandmother
was Joan Beaufort, former queen-consort of Scotland (to James I). Andrew
chose an ecclesiastical career, held a canonry in Dunkeld Cathedral and
was rector of Blair parish church (Dunkeld diocese), a church under the
control of the earls of Atholl. After the death in January 1515 of
George Brown, Bishop of Dunkeld, a new bishop was needed for that
bishopric. Queen Margaret, husband of the recently deceased James IV and
mother of the young James V, backed to succeed Brown one Gavin Douglas,
a poet and cleric who was Provost of St Giles church in Edinburgh. He
was the uncle of the queen's new husband, Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of
Angus. The queen had put him forward on 20 January 1515, just a few days
after Brown's death. Douglas had lately missed out on the position of
Archbishop of St Andrews, and so this was in some way intended as
compensation.
