Dougal or Dugald Stewart, Lord Blairhall MP (c.1658–1712) was a 17th/18th century Scottish judge, politician, and Senator of the College of Justice.
[1] The family were Episcopalians and Royalists, and suffered heavily in the English Civil War.
They suffered further in refusing to swear an Oath of Allegiance to King William III in 1693[2] He studied law at Glasgow University from 1687 to 1691 and passed the Scottish bar as an advocate in 1694.
He was strongly opposed to the Act of Union in 1707 and imprisoned in 1708 for allegedly supporting a Jacobite invasion but nevertheless was created the Member of Parliament for Banffshire later in the same year.
[4] In June 1709 he was elected a Senator of the College of Justice under the title of Lord Blairhall, succeeding his uncle Robert Stewart.