William Stewart

My background is general and psychiatric nursing, psychiatric social work and personnel management and four years as the Student Counsellor/Lecturer at St. George's and Roehampton College of Health Studies, London. After spending twenty years in the Royal Army Medical Corps as a specialist in mental health, I retired in 1974, and then worked in the Southampton University Hospitals Combined School of Nursing until 1987. Now retired as a counsellor I am a full-time tutor with the Institute of Counselling, in Glasgow. My wife, Margaret, and I married in 1948 and we have four children still living. I started writing counselling and self-help books in 1972 and more recently have branched out into writing biographical dictionaries; my current project, which is nearing completion is Hung, Drawn and Quartered: a history of the thirteenth to the nineteenth centuries in The British Isles and of the people sentenced to this form of execution