Stewart/[Stuart], James ♂

Education

Student United College 1859-1860 Log.; Gk. 2; Lat. 2; Math. 2 1860-1861 M. Phil.; Gk. 3; Lat. 3; Math. 3 1861-1862 N. Phil.; Gk. 3; Chem.; Comp. Anat. & Physiol. Fallen bursary, 1861. Carstairs prize, 1860, 1861. Attended Congregational Church while a student. M.A. 23.4.1862 1st cl. hons. Classics. Examiner in mathematics in 1868.

LL.D. 12.2.1876.

Rector of the University 1898 - 1901.

Birth/childhood

Born 2.1.1843 eldest son of Joseph Gordon Stuart, flax-spinner, Balgonie, Markinch and Catherine Booth.

Career

Also at Cambridge University - B.A. 1866, M.A. 1869.

Examiner in mathematics in 1868. [St Andrews University]

Professor of Mechanics, Cambridge University 1875-1889. Member of Parliament [M.P.] for Hackney 1884. Hoxton 1885 - 1900. Sunderland 1906 - 1910. [University professor, politician]

Rector of the University 1898 - 1901. [St Andrews University]

Publications

Death

Died at Carrow Abbey 12.10.1913.

Sources

• UYUC310
• UYUC400:8.3.1861, 20.4.1861
• UYUY452/18/33, 97
• Times 14.10.1913
• DNB Missing persons
• Published J. Stuart, Reminiscences (London, 1911)