Rory Stewart
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Rory Stewart OBE MP FRSL |
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| Minister of State for International Development | |
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Assumed office 17 July 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | Theresa May |
| Preceded by | Desmond Swayne |
| Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | |
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In office 12 May 2015 – 17 July 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Dan Rogerson |
| Succeeded by | Thérèse Coffey |
| Chair of the Defence Select Committee | |
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In office 14 May 2014 – 12 May 2015 |
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| Preceded by | James Arbuthnot |
| Succeeded by | Julian Lewis |
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Member of Parliament for Penrith and The Border |
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Assumed office 6 May 2010 |
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| Preceded by | David Maclean |
| Majority | 19,894 (45.3%) |
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3 January 1973 British Hong Kong |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Shoshana Clark |
| Father | Brian Stewart |
| Education | Eton College |
| Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
| Website | www.rorystewart.co.uk |
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| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom
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| Service/branch |
 British Army
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| Years of service | 1991-1992 |
| Rank | Second lieutenant |
| Service number | 539088 |
| Unit | Black Watch |
Roderick James Nugent 'Rory' Stewart, OBE MP FRSL (born 3 January 1973) is a British academic, author, diplomat, documentary maker and Conservative politician currently serving as a Minister of State at the Department for International Development. He is a former Chair of the House of Commons Defence Select Committee. Since May 2010, he has been the Member of Parliament for Penrith and The Border, in the county of Cumbria, North West England.
Stewart was a senior coalition official in Iraq in 2003–04. He is known for his book about this experience, The Prince of the Marshes (also published under the title Occupational Hazards), and for his 2002 walk across Afghanistan (one part of a larger walk across Asia), which served as the basis for another book, The Places in Between, as well as his later cultural development work in Afghanistan as the Founder and Executive Chairman of the Turquoise Mountain Foundation, a British charity.
Stewart, whose family seat is Broich House near Crieff in Perthshire, Scotland, was born in Hong Kong, the child of the diplomat Brian Stewart, was brought up in Malaysia and Scotland and educated at the Dragon School and Eton College. During his gap year in 1991 he was commissioned in the Black Watch for nine months as second lieutenant (on probation). (A 'Short Service Limited Commission' where school leavers with a guaranteed University place having passed by the Regular Commissions Board (Officer selection) did three weeks training at Sandhurst then served as nominal platoon or troop commanders for between six and eighteen months with a view to acquiring some leadership skills, and with a better understanding of the Services.) He then attended Balliol College, Oxford, where he read modern history and politics, philosophy and economics (PPE).
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