Stuart Alexander Donaldson (born 4 December 1854 in Sydney, Australia, died 29 October 1915) was a schoolmaster, clergyman and Master of

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Life

Donaldson was born in Sydney, the oldest son of Sir Stuart Alexander Donaldson, the first

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of the

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. After education at

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Donaldson went to

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as a scholar in 1873, graduating with

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in Classics in 1877. From 1878 to 1904 he served as a master at Eton, during this time being

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in 1884 and

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in 1885. While a schoolmaster he published, with

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, ''Pontes'', a book of elementary Latin exercises. In 1904 he was elected as the Master of

, a position he held until his death in 1915, and was awarded the degrees of

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in 1905 and

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in 1910. He served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1912 to 1913. Donaldson married Lady Albinia Frederica Hobart-Hampden, granddaughter of Augustus Edward Hobart-Hampden, the 6th

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in 1900.cracroftspeerage, Duke of Buckinghamshire
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Publications

* ''Pontes. Elementary Latin Exercises'' (with E. Lyttelton), 1884 * ''Science and Faith'', 1890 * ''The Obligation of the Church to Foreign Mission Work generally among Non-Christian Peoples'', (Pan-Anglican Papers), 1908
''Church Life and Thought in North Africa, A.D. 200''
Cambridge University Press, 1909

References

* Obituary in The Times, 30 October 1915 {{DEFAULTSORT:Donaldson, Stuart Alexander 1854 births 1915 deaths Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Doctors of Divinity Masters of Magdalene College, Cambridge Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cambridge