John Stewart

John Alexander Stewart, the son of a farmer, was born in the early 1930s at Killinchy, Co Down, Northern Ireland. He moved to London in the late fifties. Being a trained singer his leisure time was well employed. Even so, there was always time for writing - historical pamphlets, essays, and plays. His first full length historical novel, The Centurion, was published in 1995 and has since been translated into German, Italian and Spanish. His second novel, The Last Romans, placed in the time of Justinian and Boethius, appeared in 2000.His first biography, Standing for Justice, on the life of Andrew MacLaren MP, was published in 2001 and his second, A Promise Kept, on the work of the trade unionist Tom Chapman, came out in 2003. His third novel, Marsilio, centred on the early life of the Florentine philosopher-priest Marsilio Ficino, was published in 2005.