Walter Stewart (archbishop)

Walter Stewart (c.1568–1635) was a prominent Scottish clergyman in post-Reformation Scotland who served as Protestant Archbishop of Glasgow from 1587 to 1598.

His uncle, John Stewart of Minto, was Lord Provost of Glasgow.

In 1587 he was presented to the parish of Old Kilpatrick under patronage of King James VI.

[3] In 1606 he was made Constant Moderator of the Presbytery of the Church of Scotland in the absence of John Blackburn of Cardross.

He then married Eupham Lindsay (d.1622) and had a son, Walter, and two daughters, Jean and Mary.