# Alexander Steuart > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Alexander_Steuart > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Alexander_Steuart.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Steuart > Source revision: 1352780668 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{More citations needed|date=July 2020}} '''Alexander Steuart''' [PRSSA](/source/Royal_Scottish_Society_of_Arts) [FRSE](/source/FRSE) (1884 – 1960) was a 20th century Scottish inventor and [horologist](/source/horologist). In 1921 he patented the '''Steuart Clock''' an early accurate electric clock. ==Life== He was born in [Broxburn](/source/Broxburn), [West Lothian](/source/West_Lothian) on 12 September 1884, the son of [Daniel Rankin Steuart](/source/Daniel_Rankin_Steuart) and his wife Margaret Osborne. He was educated at [George Watson's College](/source/George_Watson's_College). He was then apprenticed as an electrical engineer at King & Co on Prince Regent Street in [Leith](/source/Leith).Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1900 He then studied Electrical Engineering at [Heriot-Watt College](/source/Heriot-Watt_College) in [Edinburgh](/source/Edinburgh). Around 1905 he went to [Bolivia](/source/Bolivia) as a mining engineer. He then worked in the automobile industry for around a decade, working largely on instrument design, working variously in [Singapore](/source/Singapore), [Glasgow](/source/Glasgow) and [Birmingham](/source/Birmingham). Around 1920 he returned to Edinburgh and set up a radio and electric clock shop at 85 Pitt Street (now called Dublin Street). From 1930 he ran [Jenners](/source/Jenners) Department Store's electrical department on [Princes Street](/source/Princes_Street). In 1938 he succeeded [Alexander Robert Horne](/source/Alexander_Robert_Horne) as President of the [Royal Scottish Society of Arts](/source/Royal_Scottish_Society_of_Arts). In 1941 he was elected a Fellow of the [Royal Society of Edinburgh](/source/Royal_Society_of_Edinburgh). His proposers were Sir [Thomas Henry Holland](/source/Thomas_Henry_Holland), [Alexander Robert Horne](/source/Alexander_Robert_Horne), [Richard Stanfield](/source/Richard_Stanfield), Sir [Thomas Hudson Beare](/source/Thomas_Hudson_Beare), [John Barber Todd](/source/John_Barber_Todd), [James Robert Milne](/source/James_Robert_Milne), [Thomas Rowatt](/source/Thomas_Rowatt) and [Francis Gibson Baily](/source/Francis_Gibson_Baily).{{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=2018-08-25|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}} In the [Second World War](/source/Second_World_War) he was seconded to the design of aircraft instrumentation for the Ministry of Aircraft Production. In the [British Empire Exhibition](/source/British_Empire_Exhibition) of 1924/25 he exhibited an electric regulator and electric turret movement.{{Cite web|url=http://www.studygroup.org.uk/Articles/Content/73/Horological%20Exhibits%20at%20the%20British%20Empire%20Exhibition.htm|title = Study Group Finance Guide – A guide to UK lending}} He died on 11 September 1960 at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh, the day before his 76th birthday. ==Family== In 1911 he married Barbare Helene Mieras. ==Publications== *''An Electric Clock with Detached Pendulum'' (1924){{Cite journal|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/proceedings-of-the-royal-society-of-edinburgh/article/xan-electric-clock-with-detached-pendulum-and-continuous-motion/41CB1B493A0498A43EEC517D00F37EF5|doi = 10.1017/S0370164600022537|title = X.β€”An Electric Clock with Detached Pendulum and Continuous Motion|year = 1924|last1 = Steuart|first1 = Alex.|journal = Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh|volume = 43|pages = 154–159|url-access = subscription}} ==References== {{reflist}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Steuart, Alexander}} Category:1884 births Category:1960 deaths Category:People from West Lothian Category:People educated at George Watson's College Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Category:People from Broxburn --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Alexander Steuart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Steuart) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Steuart?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.