Gabriel Steward (April 1731–9 January 1792) was an East India Company official and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1778 and 1790.
[1] Steward was returned as Member of Parliament for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis in a by-election in 1778 to replace his wife’s uncle John Tucker.
He also succeeded to Tucker’s post of paymaster of the marines, which he kept by placing his parliamentary interest at the Treasury’s disposal and by voting regularly with each successive Administration.
He was mayor of Weymouth in 1780 and being returning officer when Parliament was dissolved unexpectedly, he was ineligible to stand in the 1780 general election.
Instead he returned Warren Lisle, an elderly relation of his wife, who resigned when Steward’s term of office finished.