John Shaw Stewart FRSE (1793–1840) was a 19th-century Scottish advocate and essayist.
[1] In 1823, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposer being William Miller, Lord Glenlee.
[3] He lived at 12 Shandwick Place in Edinburgh's West End, close to Princes Street.
[4] He died in Edinburgh on 29 June 1840 and is buried with members of his family in St Cuthbert's Churchyard at the west end of Princes Street Gardens.
They had two daughters and two sons, including Major General John Heron Maxwell Shaw-Stewart.