[Philip Stewart]. English journalist and author, born at Chunar, in India, on the 13th of October 1849. He was educated at Marlborough College, and became, in 1869, subeditor on the Pioneer, of which his father was the editor. In 1872 he published some of the work contributed to that paper under the title In My Indian Garden. In 1872 was appointed editor of the Revenue Archives of the Benares Province; in 1877 joined the staff of the Daily Telegraph, and was one of its correspondents in the Afghan War (1878–79); in Zululand (1879); in Egypt (1882), and in the Sudan (1885). In 1881–82 he traveled in the United States, and published his experiences among the Mormons under the title Sinners and Saints (1883). Among his other works are Under a Punkah (1881); Noah’s Ark: Contributions to the Study of Unnatural History (1882); The Poets’ Birds (1883); and The Valley of Teétotum Trees (1886).
