Tour Scotland photograph of the Thomas G. Stewart gravestone in the old graveyard cemetery in Alyth, Perthshire, Scotland. A Mathematical Master in Edinburgh who died from the effects of an accident on the 4th of March, 1863, aged 24. The progenitor of the Stewart family was Alan fitz Flaad, a Breton knight who settled in England after the Norman Conquest. His son, Walter fitz Alan, relocated to Scotland during the Anarchy, became the High Steward of Scotland, hence the origin of the surname. One of the hereditary Stewart stewards, Walter Stewart, married Marjorie Bruce, daughter of King Robert I, and founded the royal House of Stuart, a French spelling, beginning with their son King Robert II. The House of Stewart was the longest serving royal dynasty of Scotland. In 1603, the Stewart King James VI of Scotland became King James I of England and Wales by his succession to Queen Elizabeth I. The Stewart dynasty ruled Scotland, England and Wales, with an interruption during Cromwell's Commonwealth after the English Civil War, until 1714, when Queen Anne died and the British Crown passed to the German Electors of Hanover. The grandson of James II, Prince Charles Edward Stuart, led the last attempt to restore the Stewart dynasty to the British Crown in 1745 and became known to history as " Bonnie Prince Charlie ". This attempted coup d'état ended in the slaughter of Charles' army at the Battle of Culloden in April, 1746.
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