George Stuart

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and Literature, letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". ...

LLD (1715–18 June 1793) was an 18th-century Scottish classicist. He was joint founder of the

Royal Society of Edinburgh The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity that operates on a wholly independent and non-partisan basis and provides public benefit throughout Scotland. It was establis ...

in 1783.

Life

From 1741 to 1775 he was Professor of Humanity at the

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also serving as the University Librarian during this period. The humanities course included the teaching of

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and the study of

Roman Antiquities Dionysius of Halicarnassus (, ; – after 7 BC) was a Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric, who flourished during the reign of Emperor Augustus. His literary style was ''atticistic'' – imitating Classical Attic Greek in its prime. ...

. In 1773 he was living in private rooms at Old College. He corresponded with many well-known figures of the period including William Smellie David Steuart Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan and William Little of Liberton. He died at Fisherrow in

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on 18 June 1793.

Family

He was father of

Gilbert Stuart Gilbert Stuart ( Stewart; December 3, 1755 – July 9, 1828) was an American painter born in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Rhode Island Colony who is widely considered one of America's foremost portraitists. His best-k ...

(1742-1786) who predeceased him.

References

1715 births 1793 deaths Academics of the University of Edinburgh Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh {{UK-academic-bio-stub