Gordon Arthur Cyril "Butch" Stewart OJ CD (6 July 1941 – 4 January 2021) was a Jamaican hotelier and businessman.
[3] As a child, Stewart helped out at his mother's appliance dealership, and at 12, he bought a small canoe he used to catch fish and sell them to the local hotels.
[5] After completing his education in England,[4] Stewart became a salesman and eventually rose to become the sales manager of Dutch-owned Curaçao Trading Company.
[9] Stewart is credited with several innovations in the hospitality industry, most notably building the Caribbean's first swim-up bar at Sandals Montego Bay Resort in Jamaica in 1984.
[13] The group paid $37.5 million for a majority share of the airline; of which, Stewart held a 46 percent stake[14] and became the new chairman of Air Jamaica.
[18] As of 2012, Stewart’s businesses employed more than 10,000 people in the Caribbean across various industries including hospitality, restaurant, automotive, retail, and media.
[22] His eldest son Robert “Bobby” Stewart held various leadership positions at Sandals including running the company's online division and UK operations.
[27] Stewart lived in Kingston and Montego Bay, Jamaica, with his girlfriend Cheryl, the mother of his younger three children: a set of twins, Kelly and Gordon, and a daughter, Sabrina.