The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stewartry \Stew"art*ry\, n.
An overseer or superintendent. [R.] ``The stewartry of provisions.''
--Tooke.The office of a steward; stewardship. [R.]
--Byron.In Scotland, the jurisdiction of a steward; also, the lands under such jurisdiction.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An overseer or superintendent. 2 The role or office of a steward; stewardship. 3 (context Scotland English) The jurisdiction of a steward, or the lands under such jurisdiction.
Wikipedia
Stewartry is a committee area in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
It was formerly (1975-96) one of four local government districts in the Dumfries and Galloway Region of Scotland.
The district was formed by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, and took its name from The Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, the original designation of the former county of Kirkcudbrightshire, which covered a slightly larger area.
In 1996 the district was abolished, with its area becoming part of the Dumfries and Galloway unitary authority area, with an identical area to the region.
Usage examples of "stewartry".
Burns wrote to serve Patrick Heron, of Kerroughtree, in two elections for the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, in which he was opposed, first, by Gordon of Balmaghie, and secondly, by the Hon.
Muirhead was born in 1742, in the parish of Buittle, and stewartry of Kirkcudbright.
His father George Duncan, was minister of Lochrutton in the stewartry of Kircudbright, and the subject of this memoir was born in the manse of that parish, on the 8th October 1774.
He married Elizabeth Harley, a lady of good connexions and of elegant personal accomplishments, and with the view of acquiring a more decided independence in his new condition, took in lease the farm of Culfaud, in the stewartry of Kirkcudbright.
He was the youngest son of Samuel Brown, minister of Kirkmabreck, in the stewartry of Kirkcudbright, and was born in the manse of that parish, on the 9th January 1778.
Addresses against the treaty were presented to parliament by the convention of boroughs, the commissioners of the general assembly, the company trading to Africa and the Indies, as well as from several shires, stewartries, boroughs, towns, and parishes, in all the different parts of the kingdom, without distinction of whig or tory, episcopalian or presbyterian.