STEWARTS CAREER OF HONOUR. 203 for performing varied and difficult duties, but for winning the confidence and regard of those under his command. His career had been as honourable as it was active, and his comrades in arms had a sincere affection for him as a brave, simple, kindly gentleman, and at the same time as a dashing and brilliant cavalry officer.

Major-general Sir Herbert Stewart, K.C.B., born on June 30th, 1843, was eldest son of the Rev. John Edward Stewart, rector of Sparsholt, Hampshire, and was a great-grandson of the seventh Earl of Galloway. His mother was daughter of the late Charles John Herbert, of Muckross, county Kerry. He was educated at Winchester College, and entered the army as ensign in the 37th Regiment (now the Hampshire) in 1863. It is not generally known that Stewart was at one time intended for the bar, that he kept all his terms and ate all his dinners, but in the end abandoned that life for a military career. He was gazetted lieutenant in 1865 and captain in i868. For two years from this time he acted as aide-de-camp to the major-general commanding the Bengal Presidency, and the year following as deputy-assistant quartermaster-general in Bengal. In 1873 he joined the 3d Dragoon Guards, on the lists of which regiment his name now stands as major. In 1878 he passed the Staff College and served as brigade major in the Zulu war of 1879, and was present at the affair of Erzungayan. He was specially employed on the lines of communication after the breaking up of the cavalry brigade, and for his services here he was mentioned in Colonel Russell's report, with brevet rank as major, which rank he gained substantively in 1882. He served as principal staff officer to the Transvaal field force in the operations against Secocoeni, and as military secretary and chief of the staff to Sir Garnet Wolseley, and in this capacity he gained further mention in despatches and his brevet of lieutenant-colonel, together with a medal and clasp. In 1881 he went to South Africa on special service, and was assistant adjutant and Only a few days before writing these lines the author was sitting at dinner next to a friend who had been Herbert Stewart's junior and " fag" at Winchester. This gentleman on referring to the deceased general spoke of him in terms of earnest admiration and affection, saying, that everybody liked him, that he was one of those who seemed born to influence, if not to command others by a kind of personal charm, and that all the juniors were pleased to do anything for him.