Peter Maxwell Stuart
Peter D'Arcy Joseph Maxwell-Stuart, 20th Laird of Traquair (16 November 1922 – 1990)[1] was a Scottish landowner. He rediscovered the 18th-century brewery at Traquair House and became a noted brewer.
He was the father of Catherine Maxwell Stuart, 21st Lady of Traquair.
Early life
[edit | edit source]Stuart was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1922,[2] to Francis Joseph Maxwell-Stuart, 19th Laird of Traquair, and Dorothy Mary Hartley.[1]
Career
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Stuart was an officer in the British Indian Army and a managing director at Vickers.[citation needed]
In the early 1960s,[3] he rediscovered the 18th-century brewery at Traquair House and began brewing beer using the original equipment.[4] Some of the oak barrels were over 200 years old.[5]
David Geary, who established D. L. Geary Brewing Company in the United States in 1983, worked as an intern under Stuart to learn the craft of brewing.[6][7][8] Geary began distributing Stuart's Traquair House Ale in 1984.[9]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]In 1956, Stuart married Flora Carr-Saunders,[1] daughter of Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders, with whom he had a daughter, Catherine,[1] in 1964. She became the 21st Lady of Traquair.[2][5]
Death
[edit | edit source]Stuart died in February 1990,[10] aged 68.[11]
References
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- ^ The Scotsman, 21 February 1990, p. 6