Patrick Stewarts siblings- Trevor Stewart and Geoffrey Stewart

Patrick Stewart is a celebrated English actor whose career has spanned seven decades in theatre, film, television, and video games. He is known worldwide especially for playing Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the Star Trek series and movie franchise, and for portraying Professor Charles Xavier in the X-men series of superhero films. Stewart has been nominated for Olivier, Tony, Golden Globe, Emmy, and Screen Actors Guild Awards. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1996 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to drama in 2010.

Who are Patrick Stewart’s siblings?

Stewart spent much of his childhood in a poor household in Jarrow. He was one of the three children of  Alfred Stewart and  Gladys Stewart. He was the youngest of the three children of the couple. Patrick Stewart’s siblings are Stewart and Geoffrey Stewart. As a child, the actor regularly saw his father hit his mother.

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“My father was, in many ways, a man of discipline, organisation and charisma – a regimental sergeant major no less. One of the very last men to be evacuated from Dunkirk, his third stripe was chalked on to his uniform by an officer when no more senior NCOs were left alive. Parachuted into Crete and Italy, both times under fire, he fought at Monte Casino and was twice mentioned in dispatches. A fellow soldier once told me, “When your father marches on to the parade ground, the birds in the trees stop singing.“- he told The Guardian.

The family lived in poverty, in a one-up, one-down- “My parents’ bedroom had a semi-permanent partition built into it, which is where my brother [Trevor, who is five years older] and I slept. No hot water, no cooking facilities, no toilet, bathroom. Just an open fire and a gas ring. I’d never known anything else.“-He told Telegraph.

The size of the house meant that when their father Alfred became violent, Patrick and his brothers couldn’t help but be there.

“We became experts at knowing when the moment had arrived in the shouting when we had to physically put our bodies between our mother and our father. Children should not [have to] become experts at this kind of thing, but we knew when violence was about to happen because we’d seen it so many times,” he says.

He and his brother Trevor would lay awake until their father returned from the pub so they would be ready to break up a fight.  Once, later in life, Stewart and his brothers visited their mother to attempt a kind of intervention.

“We said, ‘Mum, we want to get you out of that house, it’s so bad for you, we can buy you a house, we’d love to buy you a house. And you can be by yourself and have your own friends there and there will be people to look after you.’ But she refused. She wouldn’t leave my father.”- Patrick told The Guardian.

Who is Patrick Stewart’s elder brother Geoffrey Stewart?

Geoffrey Stewart was born in 1925. According to Whodoyouthinkyouare, Alfred ran away from marrying Gladys (the couple eventually wed), when she gave birth to an illegitimate child, Geoffrey. Gladys took Alfred to court for maintenance, in effect forcing Alfred to acknowledge Geoffrey as his own. They ended up getting married in 1933 in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England. According to the actor, his brother was also in the Royal Air Force.

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Geoffrey disliked their father intensely, the actor revealed- “And my eldest brother never, ever lived at home again. He lived with my mother’s sister just across the road. But he and my father had a very, very difficult relationship, if there was enough there to call it a relationship.“

Though he is the brother of a famous Hollywood personality, Geoffrey Stewart has been very private about his life.

Patrick Stewart’s brother Trevor Stewart

Trevor Stewart was born on 10 August 1935. He is the second eldest child of Alfred Stewart and  Gladys Stewart. Growing up in a house where there was no running hot water, no indoor toilet, and no central heating, for a long time Patrick shared a bed with his brother, Trevor, who was five years his senior.

Patrick Stewart and his brother Trevor Stewart were often witnesses to their father’s attacks on their mother. The actor recalls sitting on the staircase and overhearing violent goings on. Every now and then the boys would propel themselves between their parents’ bodies to prevent further harm, though they were not always in time.

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Comparing himself to his elder brother Patrick said– “My other brother, Trevor, who is five years older than me – he and I had very similar experiences. But he was a calmer and quieter and more patient teenager than I proved to be, and so I think he was able to tolerate this difficult situation better than I could. I really had problems with it.“

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