MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR. 



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was greatly distinguished, bj his services during the militia 

 and meal riots at the close of the last century. At an 

 earlier period of his life he obtained a captaincy in the 

 Fifeshire Fencibles ; and, as we find from some of his 

 papers still existing, interested himself in drawing up 

 various regulations for that corps. Though fond of the 

 usual country amusement — the necessary adjunct perhaps 

 of every country proprietor — namely, of shooting, and we 

 may add also, in its proper season, of skating (in which 

 he excelled) upon the lake which he had formed in the 

 park at AUanton, his chief exercise and enjoyment was 

 transplanting, which formed the great business and 

 pleasure of his life. The article on his work in the 

 Westminster Review thus not inappropriately concludes : 

 — " A great reward was once offered by a rich, and yet 

 a very poor man, for the invention of a new pleasure : 

 there are times when some of our country gentlemen 

 would be tempted to give a good deal for that same 

 invention. Men cannot be always shooting, or hunting, 

 or seeing that the Game Laws are carried into execution, 

 nor can dinner be made to last all the day long ; had they 

 but the heart to know it, Sir Henry Steuart has done for 

 those gentlemen what the satiated prince asked in vain ; 

 what he has done for his country there has not yet been 

 time fully to show.'' 



About the close of the year 1835, Sir Henry began to 

 discover symptoms of a general breaking up of his con- 

 stitution, and after a few months' lingering illness, died on 

 11th March 1836, aged seventy-six.''" He was interred, 

 according to the rites of the Episcopal Church, of which 

 he had all his life been an attached and consistent 

 member, in the family vault at Camnethan, a few miles 



Lady Steuart predeceased her husband Sir Henry, having died in the year 

 1821. 



