Hugh Fraser Stewart

[1] A meeting at H. M. Chadwick's house in 1916, with Stewart and Arthur Quiller-Couch, was significant in the launching of the Cambridge English Tripos.

[1] Close to Paul Desjardins, whom he met through Jacques Raverat in 1913, Stewart took part at the meetings of the Décades de Pontigny.

Eliot's interest had been aroused by a play he had been given to read by George Every, dealing with the contact Charles I of England had had with the Little Gidding community in 1646.

[11][12] Stewart wrote on French literature, and translated the works of Blaise Pascal, on whom he was considered an authority.

[15] French Patriotism in the Nineteenth Century, traced in contemporary texts (1923) was edited with Paul Desjardins.