Archibald Stewart (Lord Provost)

Archibald Stewart of Mitcham MP (1697–1780) was an 18th-century Scottish merchant and politician who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh during the Jacobite Rising of 1745. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London for over a year for alleged negligence.

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