Captain Colvin Stewart
(1830-1902)

[This sitting does not appear in the Silvy daybooks in the archives of the National Portrait Gallery. Presumably the sitter visited the studio between July 1863 and June 1864, the period covered by the missing daybook.]

Identified on the album page as 'Captain Colvin Stewart,' this is almost certainly Captain Colvin Stewart of the Galloway Rifles, a regiment in the Scottish militia. 

Born on 5 December 1830 at Minnigaff in Kirkcudbrightshire, his parents were James Stewart and Elizabeth née Macleod. 

On 2 April 1867 at All Saints in Fulham he married Julia Henrietta Mary Coape, daughter of James Coape, 'Gentleman and Magistrate.' The groom gave as his profession 'Captain Scottish Borderers.'

The couple appear on various censuses, always at Minnigaff in Kirkcudbrightshire. In 1871 they were living at Milburne Cottage, in 1881 they were at Cairnsmore House, by 1891 they had moved to Bargaly Mansion, and they were still at the same address in 1901. They do not appear to have had any children. 

Captain Colvin Stewart died on 7 June 1902. The abstract of his will describes him as 'of Cairnsmore and Bargally, Minnigaff, Kirkcudbrightshire.'