George H. Steuart

George H. Steuart (November 3, 1907 – September 19, 1998) was an American diplomat and Foreign Service officer, and one of the last consuls of the United States of America in Liverpool, England. He was a major benefactor of the Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library in Lancaster, Virginia, donating by deed of gift the Steuart Blakemore Building, formerly known as the Old Post Office.

Biography

Early life and family

Steuart was born in Ottoman, Virginia, on November 3, 1907, the son of physician George H. Steuart, and Irene Blakemore. Steuart married Lois Sykes Decamps, of Anderson, South Carolina, daughter of Christie Jean Baptiste DeCamps and Lois Catherine Sykes, on May 28, 1938, in Wallacetown, Virginia. who served as an economic counselor with the United States Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela.

Career Steuart attended Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and began his career in public service with the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the National Youth Administration.

During World War II, he was chief of accounting administration with the Board of Economic Warfare, after which he served in Cairo, Egypt, with the Foreign Economic Administration. The buildings were eventually demolished in 1999.

The consulate in Liverpool was Steuart's final posting. He retired from the Foreign Service in 1965, and became a business consultant with James Somerville Associates, and manager of the Washington office of Commonwealth Associates, an architectural and engineering firm. It now constitutes one of the five historic buildings in the museum complex.

Death and legacy Steuart was a vestryman and usher at Immanuel Episcopal Church-on-the-Hill, Alexandria, Virginia, and died in Falls Church, Virginia, on 19 September 1998. He is buried in the churchyard of St. Mary's, Whitechapel in Lancaster.