Sir Halley Stewart: Preacher, Politician, Businessman, Benefactor: Founder of The Sir Halley Stewart Trust
By David Newton
Hardcover
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By David Newton
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First published in 1968, the original blurb reads: "Sir Halley Stewart’s last ambition was to reach his hundredth birthday, as the final distinction of a life full of achievement, starting from boyhood as one of the fourteen children of a poor Dissenting minister. But he had barely entered his hundredth year when he died at Harpenden in January 1937.
In 1932 he was the second oldest man ever to be knighted in Britain. He made two fortunes and left almost all his wealth to a trust with a Chri...


