Sir Michael Shaw Stewart, 5th Baronet

[1] He was: An officer of the Yeomanry of Renfrewshire, a high office-bearer in the Grand Masonic Lodge of Scotland, and as a keen horseman, Sir Michael was a member of the Royal Caledonian Hunt.

[2] He was elected president of the Hunt for the year of 1822[3] On 24 August 1822, during the Visit of King George IV to Scotland, Sir Michael, dressed in his Yeomanry Uniform attended the banquet at Parliament House provided by the Lord Provost, Magistrates and Town Council of the City of Edinburgh.

Fellow notable members of the Yeomanry on parade and attending the dinner included Sir Walter Scott and Adam Ferguson.

Sir Michael's eldest daughter Margaret, also attended aged 20, recorded as wearing "a most elegant dress" of white net, richly embroidered with pearls, and trimmed with a profusion of blond lace, a Manteau of the richest white gros-de-Naples, garniture en-blond and pearls to correspond.

[4] Sir Michael contributed to many charities at home, such as the payment of land rental for the Greenock Infirmary; the education of many poor children in Inverkip over a number of years, providing them with books paper, pens and pencils as well as paying most of the Schoolmasters salary.