Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Steward, Richard (1)
Steward, Richard, of Northants, gent. Magdalen Hall, matric. entry 1 Dec., 1609, aged 14, B.A. 5 May, 1612; fellow All Souls' Coll., 1613, M.A. 24 Jan., 1614-15, B.C.L. 10 Dec., 1617, proctor 1622, D.C.L. 3 July, 1624; of Lodington, Northants (s. Nicholas, of Patishull, Northants), baptised there 3 Aug., 1595; rector of Harrietsham, Kent, 1626, vicar of Aldbourne 1630, rector of Mildenhall 1630, and of Alton Barnes, Wilts, 1630, canon of Worcester 1628-38, and of Salisbury 1629, chaplain in ordinary and clerk of the closet to Charles I. 1633, dean of Chichester 1634, canon of Westminster 1638, provost of Eton 1639-43, dean of St. Paul's 1641, and of Westminster, though he never possessed it, dean of the chapel royal, deprived of all his preferments during the rebellion; died in Paris 14 Nov., 1651, buried at St. Germains; brother of George 1609, and father of Charles 1658. See Ath. iii. 295; Gutch, i. 285; Al. West. 20; Lansdowne MS. 985, f. 180; & Foster's Index Eccl.