STEWART, ROBERT

See LonponQUESS OF. (1857-1916), S. African statesman; elected president of Orange Free State in 1896. On outbreak of Boer War, 1899, he threw in his lot with the Transvaal, and for more than a year was pursued by Brit. columns. Broken in health, he lived in retirement after the war, only emerging to take part in the National Convention which resulted in S. African Union. None the le , although retired, he continued to be a potent force in pie 8. African politics, Babes and * his uncompromisgly pro-Dutch policy undoubtedly influenced the section ‘ of Boers é which * raised the 8. African rebellion, 1914. town, at junction of Enns and Steyr, Upper Austria; manufactures iron and steel. Pop. 18,000.