The son of the tenth chief of Clan Appin, he was born in Massachusetts, educated at Dr Valpy’s school in Reading, Eton, Lincoln's Inn, and Exeter College, Oxford; he was an evangelical clergyman officiating at the Percy Chapel in London.

REFERENCES TO James Haldane Stewart:

Robert Southey to Margaret Holford Hodson, 16 March 1830 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)