172 OBITUARY NOTICE OF DR CHlRLES STUART 



Until eighteen months or so before his death he had always 

 enjoyed good health, and his robust frame and excellent 

 constitution showed no signs of breaking till he contracted 

 the ailment which ultimately, after much suffering, laid him 

 low. 



Amid many tokens of respect and affection from a large 

 concourse of mourners, he was laid to rest in the churchyard 

 of the old Parish Church at Chirnside, within sight of the 

 little garden which had been his chief delight for so many 

 years — the garden whence had emanated the numerous pro- 

 ductions which had so delighted his friends, enriched the 

 horticultural world, and procured him such distinction in 

 horticultural circles. 



Dr Stuart, it is well known, was a representative of a 

 collateral branch of the ancient Earldom of Moray, being a 

 direct lineal descendant of the third son of the fourth Earl. 

 His father, John Alexander Stuart, died in 1869; and his 

 son Charles, the subject of this memoir, was born at Woodhall, 

 near Edinburgh, on 30th March 1825 ; married, in 1851, 

 Georgina, daughter of the late Eev. John Edgar, minister 

 of Hutton, Berwickshire ; and is survived by his widow 

 and a large family of sons and daughters to mourn his 

 loss. 



He was educated at the Edinburgh Institution, and at 

 the University of Edinburgh, where he took his degree as 

 Doctor of Medicine in 1846, and was also a Licentiate of 

 the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh. Two years 

 after qualifying professionally, he settled at Chirnside, where 

 he practised for fifty years — not until quite the close of 

 the century having sought the services of a coadjutor and 

 successor. His talents, skill, and energy secured for him a 

 large and successful clientele. 



From an early date he was appointed Medical Officer for 

 Chirnside and adjacent parishes, and did excellent service 

 in that capacity. The poor found in him a true friend, 

 for he was always solicitous in securing their interests and 

 comforts. He was an Extraordinary Member of the Eoyal 

 Medical Society in Edinburgh. 



The Free (now West United Free) Church of Chirnside 

 were proud to number him among them, and he took a 



