ROBERT GORDON STEWART
ENDOWMWENT DONER LHS
Robert was a Lewes boy at
heart. His father, Kenneth Elsworth Stewart, a Baltimore
life insurance salesman,
his mother Ruth Chambers, daughter of Delaware River Pilot
Louis Chambers and Bess
Kirby Simpson of Lewes, spent the summers at the family Pilot
Town home, attended
University of Pennsylvania , served in the U S. Army, was a
Director of Properties
for the National Trust for Historic Preservation and was the
Senior Curator of the
National Portrait Gallery at Smithsonian.
He and his mother, Ruth
Chambers , were supporters of the Lewes Historic Society,
many family pieces found
way in our museums. His experience led to consultant and
writer to the Journal .
He served the Board of Trustees.
Robert Gordon Stewart
died 17 November 2005, age 74, and is buried with his
mother in St. Peters
Episcopal Cemetery, Pilot Town. He left an endowment of over
$400,000. Also donated photographic and archival materials to
the museums.
Abstract: July 4, 2018
by Harrison H. www.iinni.blogspot.com
from the
Lewestown Press, Fall
2011.
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