Stewart was educated in Bath, Somerset before entering Christ's College, Cambridge in 1870.
[1] Charles Henry Hylton Stewart was Choral Scholar and Organist of St Catharine's College, Cambridge.
[2] On James Pyne's departure, he acted as interim Organist of Chichester Cathedral and was formally appointed in May 1874.
[3] The following year he left to take Holy Orders and was successively Minor Canon Precentor of Chester Cathedral (1877–89), Vicar of New Brighton (1889 - 1904),[4] and Rector of Bathwick, Bath (1904–16).
His son Charles Hylton Stewart, was Organist of Rochester Cathedral and of St. George's Chapel, Windsor.