Andrew Charles Stewart (22 April 1907 – 1 January 1979) was a British diplomat,[1] Ambassador to Iceland and Libya.
He was recalled by Ivor Lucas as "a congenial soul with an 'Indian' background and some Arab experience", and not generally "particularly zealous in the exercise of his official functions".
Stewart was coasting along in the belief that he still had another couple of years to go when he received, out of the blue, a letter from the Foreign Office informing him that he would be retiring within a matter of months.
To add insult to injury, the day on which he finally left Tripoli and the Service was an appallingly wet one.
By the time he eventually took off, the farewell party of friends and colleagues had gradually dwindled to one saddened Head of Chancery.