His brother tells the story that Stewart would attend rehearsals during work time and then invent the stories he reported. He acquired a job as a newspaper reporter and obituary writer, but after a year, his employer gave him an ultimatum to choose acting or journalism. He attended Crowlees C of E Junior and Infants School, and in 1951, aged 11, he entered Mirfield Secondary Modern School, where he continued to study drama.Īt age 15, Stewart dropped out of school and increased his participation in local theatre. His childhood experiences also led him to become the patron of Refuge, a UK charity for abused women. 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. Throughout childhood, he endured poverty and disadvantage, an experience which influenced his later political and ideological beliefs. Stewart was born in Mirfield near Dewsbury in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, the son of Gladys ( née Barrowclough), 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 (KOYLI) and previously worked as a general labourer and as a postman.
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