# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brian-stewart
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:57:41.614Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brian-stewart"
name: "Brian Stewart"
slug: "brian-stewart"
description: "Brian Thomas Webster Stewart was a Scottish soldier, colonial official, diplomat and the second-most senior officer in the British Secret Intelligence Service. He fought in the Second World War, played an influential role in the Malayan Emergency, then served as British Consul-General in Shanghai on the eve of the cultural revolution, as British Representative to North Vietnam during the Vietnam War, and as the Director of Technical Services and Assistant Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from 1974 to 1979."
tagline: "Scottish diplomat"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1922-04-27"
deathDate: "2015-08-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.02
  momentum:             0
  historical:           1.683165333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  49
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Stewart_(diplomat)"
    title: "Brian Stewart (diplomat)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26251258"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations