Alexander Stewart was an Irish landowner who grew rich by inheriting a fortune from Robert Cowan, an East India Company official who served as the governor of Bombay. His son Robert became the 1st Mar
c. 1720–1725 portrait
The Temple of the Winds at Mount Stewart, commissioned by Alexander Stewart
Mount Stewart
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Mount Stewart is a 19th-century house and garden in County Down, Northern Ireland, owned by the National Trust. Situated on the east shore of Strangford Lough, a few miles outside the town of Newtowna
Mount Stewart, April 2011
Spanish garden
Characteristically luxuriant planting contained within formally clipped edging
The lake at Mount Stewart