Dr. Charles Stuart of Dunearn, Min. of Cramond

Biographical Summary

STUART, CHARLES. ?-28/05/1826. Ref: 1456. Male.

• Titles and British Honours: Rev.
• Place of Birth: Fife.
• Place of Death: 58 George Square, Edinburgh.
• Profession: Minister of Religion, Physician.
• Appointments Held: Licensed Church of Scotland 1772; Minister 1773-6, Cramond, Edinburgh; Anabaptist Minister 1781-Edinburgh; Physician in Edinburgh; Editor 1798-1800 Edinburgh Quarterly Magazine; Governor, Edinburgh Orphan Asylum.
• Undergraduate Studies: MD (Edinburgh1781).
• Father: James Stuart of Dunearn, Fifeshire, Lord Provost of Edinburgh.
• References: Fasti Eccl. Scot. 1, 12; Anderson 3, 537; Shapin 446; S Devlin-Thorp Scotland's Cultural Heritage 1, 1981.
• Memberships: FRCPE (President 1806-9), Royal Medical Society (President 1780).
• Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
• Proposers: Founder Member.
• Edinburgh Philosophical Society: Residential.
• Notes: Born 1746.
• Fellow Type: OF.

SOURCE: Waterston, Charles D; Macmillan Shearer, A (July 2006). Biographical index of former fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783-2002: Biographical Index. II. Edinburgh: The Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. page 901

Other References

• Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation, Vol. I, page 12

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Charles Stuart1

M, #489232, d. 1826
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Charles Stuart was the son of James Stuart and Elizabeth Drummond.2 He married, secondly, Margaret Parlane.2 He married, firstly, Mary Erskine, daughter of Reverend John Erskine and Hon. Christian Mackay, on 29 October 1773.2 He died in 1826.2

He graduated with a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.)2 He lived at Dunearn, Fife, Scotland.2 He held the office of President of the Royal College of Physicians of Scotland between 1806 and 1809.2 He was President of the Royal Society of Scotland between 1807 and 1809.2

Children of Charles Stuart and Mary Erskine

1. Mary Stuart+2 d. 1 Mar 1872
2. John Alexander Stuart+2 b. 4 Nov 1787, d. 3 Nov 1869

Citations

1. [S37] BP2003 volume 2, page 2128. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
2. [S37] BP2003. [S37]

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