Donald Martin Stewart

Field Marshal Sir Donald Martin Stewart, 1st Baronet, GCB GCSI CIE (1 March 1824 – 26 March 1900) was a British field marshal. He was for five years Commander-in-Chief, India, and afterwards a member of the Council of the Secretary of State for India. He was the son of Robert Stewart, and born at Mount Pleasant, near Forres, Moray, Scotland. He was educated at schools at Findhorn, Dufftown and Elgin and at the University of Aberdeen. Stewart was commissioned into the Bengal Army in 1840, and served in 1854 and 1855 in the frontier expeditions against the Mohmands. In the Indian rebellion of 1857 Stewart, after a famous ride from Agra to Delhi with dispatches, served on the staff at the siege and capture of Delhi and of Lucknow, and...