William Augustus Steward served his apprenticeship under James Faraday Barnard and was granted his Freedom on the 7th March 1888. He was, as well as being a noted Jewellery Designer, the Chief Instructor and Head of the Silversmithing and Allied Crafts Department at The Central School of Arts, and the Editor of 'The Watchmaker, Jeweller and Silversmith'.
Amongst his more noted pupils at The Central School of Arts, were Julius Wolfe Sandheim of Sandheim Brothers, and Walter Stoye of Barkentin & Krall, but his star pupil without doubt, must surely have been, the great Henry George Murphy, who succeeded Steward in the role of Head of the Silversmithing and Allied Crafts Department at The Central School of Arts.
William Augustus Steward was recorded as designing for Hardebeck & Bornhardt.
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