Charles Hunter Stewart
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Charles Hunter Stewart {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FSAs|FRSE}} (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.{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=2018-09-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=dead}} He was then living at 2 Bellevue Terrace.Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1888
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.Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1900
He died at age 69.
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.Who's Who 1929
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Category:Medical doctors from Edinburgh
Category:Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Category:Academics of the University of Edinburgh
Category:19th-century Scottish medical doctors
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Category:20th-century Scottish medical doctors
Category:Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
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