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[[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|Captain]] '''Sir Donald William Stewart''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|KCMG}} (1860 – 1 October 1905) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] military officer and Commissioner of the [[East Africa Protectorate]]<br />
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==Early life==<br />
He was born in [[London]], the son of [[Sir Donald Stewart, 1st Baronet]], a former [[Commander-in-Chief, India|Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army]]. <br />
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==Career==<br />
Stewart followed his father into the army and was commissioned with the [[Gordon Highlanders]]. He served in [[British India|India]] and between 1879 and 1880 took part in the [[Second Anglo-Afghan War]], during which he was severely injured.<ref name="auto1">Wertheim, Stanley (1997), ''A Stephen Crane Encyclopedia'', Greenwood Publishing Group, p. 323.</ref> He went on to serve in the [[First Boer War]] in 1881 and the [[Mahdist War]] between 1884 and 1885.<ref name="auto2">{{cite web|url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/11752|title=Donald William Stewart|publisher=[[Imperial War Museum]]}}</ref> He left the army in 1888.<ref name="auto1"/><br />
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In 1894 he was sent to [[Kumasi]] on the [[Gold Coast (British colony)|Gold Coast]] as a political agent. In 1896 he became the first British Resident in Kumasi, and served during the [[Anglo-Ashanti wars|Second Ashanti Expedition]].<ref>Williamson, Thora (2000), ''Gold Coast Diaries: Chronicles of Political Officers in West Africa'', The Radcliffe Press.</ref> He remained on the Gold Coast until August 1904, when he was made [[List of colonial governors and administrators of Kenya|Commissioner]] of the [[East Africa Protectorate]].<ref>Sorrenson, M. P. K. (1968), ''Origins of European Settlement in Kenya'', Oxford University Press.</ref><ref name="WillsBarrett1884">{{cite book|last1=Wills|first1=Walter H.|last2=Barrett|first2=R. J.|title=The Anglo-African Who's Who and Biographical Sketch-book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iScbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA230|year=1884|publisher=George Routledge & Sons, Limited|page=230}}</ref> At the beginning of his term he was involved in discussions with the [[Maasai people|Maasai]] over land rights and signed the [[Anglo-Maasai Treaty (1904)|First Maasai Treaty]] in 1904.<ref>Waller, Richard (1976), [https://www.jstor.org/stable/180738 "The Maasai and the British 1895-1905. the Origins of an Alliance"], ''The Journal of African History'' 17, no. 4: 529–53.</ref> His tenure, however, was short-lived and he died while in [[Nairobi]] from [[pneumonia]] on 1 October 1905.<ref name="auto1"/> He is buried at [[List_of_cemeteries_in_Kenya|Nairobi South Cemetery]].<br />
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==Personal life==<br />
In 1889 he met his wife [[Cora Crane|Cora Howarth]] while in [[New York City|New York]]. They were married in London the following year, but by 1892 she had left him for another man.<ref name="auto1"/><br />
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