Donald William Stewart

Captain Sir Donald William Stewart KCMG (1860 – 1 October 1905) was a British military officer and Commissioner of the East Africa Protectorate He was born in London, the son of Sir Donald Stewart, 1st Baronet, a former Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army.

Stewart followed his father into the army and was commissioned with the Gordon Highlanders.

He served in India and between 1879 and 1880 took part in the Second Anglo-Afghan War, during which he was severely injured.

[3] He remained on the Gold Coast until August 1904, when he was made Commissioner of the East Africa Protectorate.

[6] His tenure, however, was short-lived and he died while in Nairobi from pneumonia on 1 October 1905.