Charles Hunter Stewart

Prof Charles Hunter Stewart FRSE FSA(Scot) (29 September 1854 – 30 June 1924) was a Scottish physician and public health expert.

Born in Edinburgh, Stewart studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. In 1884 he became an assistant at the Laboratory of Public Health in Edinburgh under Henry Littlejohn.

In 1888 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir Andrew Douglas Maclagan, Sir William Turner, Alexander Crum Brown and Peter Guthrie Tait.[1] He was then living at 2 Bellevue Terrace.[2]

In 1898 he became Professor of Public Health at the University of Edinburgh

In 1900 he was living at 9 Learmonth Gardens in Edinburgh's West End.[3]

He died three months before his 70th birthday.

Family

He married twice, firstly in 1888 to Ann Maria Gibson (d.1905), and after her death, in 1912 he married Agnes Millar McGibbon Somers, daughter of Robert Somers of Stirling.[4]

gollark: Wasn't it also that they proved very defensible somehow?
gollark: Twice, I think.
gollark: Australia went to war with emus and lost.
gollark: (I managed to get around that and do *some* amount by signing up to the fitness thing at school as my sports option (you are required to pick one), which obligates me to do some stuff once a week when that's on, but this doesn't really generalize)
gollark: I feel like I'm too easily bored/distracted for that to get past me not particularly liking exercise.

References
  1. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2018-09-07.
  2. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1888
  3. Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1900
  4. Who's Who 1929
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