Stewart, William
STEWART, WILLIAM (c. I48o-c. 1550), Scottish poet and translator, descendant of one of the illegitimate sons of Alexander Stewart, earl of Buchan, the " Wolf of Badenoch," was a member of the university of St Andrews. He was in orders, and a hanger-on at the court of James V. The last entry of the payment of a pension of 40 appears in the accounts of 1541. He was known as a poet in his own day: Lyndsay and Rolland refer to him. Portions of his minor verse are preserved in the Bannatyne and Maitland Folio MSS. His chief work is a metrical translation of Hector Boece's History, in obedience to the command of James V., who entrusted Bellenden with its translation into Scots prose.
Stewart's version remained in MS. till 1858, when it was edited by W. Turnbull for the " Rolls Series " (3 vols.). The MS. is now in the library of the university of Cambridge.
Note - this article incorporates content from Encyclopaedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, (1910-1911)
