Findlater Stewart

Sir Samuel Findlater Stewart GCB GCIE CSI (22 December 1879 – 11 April 1960) was a Scottish civil servant of the India Office.

At the age of 14 he entered the University of Edinburgh, graduating with an MA(Hons) six years later.

[2] In 1903 he passed the civil service examinations and joined the India Office in 1903,[2] working on miscellaneous assignments until 1920, when he was appointed to the Royal Commission on the Supreme Civil Services in India.

He remained there, until just after the beginning of World War II, leaving to join an executive position in Home Defence and was in-charge of the US military buildup in England.

[1] Their daughter Gillian married Otto Skutsch, a German-British classicist, in 1938.