Ryk Brown, FSAScot, is one of the co-founders of the <i>Stewarts of Balquhidder Research Group</i> from 2002. He is the administrator of this website and our Facebook group. He is a descendant of the Stewarts of Dalveich (Ardvorlich VII), and has been a genealogist since 1995. He lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and has travelled to Balquhidder. <em>Agus, tha beagan Gaidhlig agad.</em> (He speaks a little Gaelic.) Ryk is a member of the Stewart Society in Edinburgh. In 2025, Ryk was admitted as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.