Patrick Stewart

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Stewart was born in Mirfield near Dewsbury in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, the son of Gladys, a weaver and textile worker, and Alfred Stewart, a Regimental Sergeant Major in the British Army who served with the King''s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and previously worked as a general labourer and as a postman. Throughout childhood, he endured poverty and disadvantage, an experience which influenced his later political and ideological beliefs.In 2006 Stewart made a short video against domestic violence for Amnesty International, in which he recollected his father''s physical attacks on his mother and the effect it had on him as a child, and he has given his name to a scholarship at the University of Huddersfield, where he is Chancellor, to fund post-graduate study into domestic violence.... Mehr