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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Edward_Stuart > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Edward_Stuart.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Stuart > Source revision: 1326652862 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|British Anglican bishop}} {{for|the South African lawn bowler|Edward Stuart (bowls)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2016}} {{Use British English|date=December 2016}} {{Infobox Christian leader | honorific-prefix = {{pre-nominal styles|RRevd}} | name = Edward Stuart | honorific-suffix = | title = [Bishop of Waiapu](/source/Bishop_of_Waiapu) | image = Bishop EC Stuart.jpg | caption = Edward Stuart | province = [East Coast](/source/Gisborne_District) of the [North Island](/source/North_Island) of [New Zealand](/source/New_Zealand) | diocese = [Anglican Diocese of Waiapu](/source/Anglican_Diocese_of_Waiapu) | enthroned = | predecessor = [William Williams](/source/William_Williams_(bishop)) | ordination = | consecration = | consecrated_by = | other_post = |birth_name = Edward Stuart |birth_date = 1827 |birth_place = [Edinburgh](/source/Edinburgh) |death_date = {{Death date and age|1911|03|15|1827|12|31|df=yes}} |death_place = [England](/source/England) |spouse = Anne Alicia de Courcy (married, 1851) |occupation = [Anglican](/source/Anglican) bishop |nationality = }} '''Edward Craig Stuart''' (1827 – 15 March 1911) was the second [Anglican](/source/Anglican) [Bishop of Waiapu](/source/Bishop_of_Waiapu),{{DNZB|author=Barbara Cooper and Brian O'Brien|id=2L16 |title=Lofley, Edward|accessdate=29 June 2011}} whose [episcopate](/source/episcopate) spanned a 16-year periodThe Cyclopedia of New Zealand, 2016, Introduction during the second half of the 19th century.[''Who Was Who 1897–1990''](/source/Who's_Who) London: [A & C Black](/source/A_%26_C_Black), 1991 {{ISBN|0-7136-3457-X}}. Stuart served as a missionary under the auspices of the [Church Missionary Society](/source/Church_Missionary_Society) (CMS) in London , which had appointed him to serve in India and later in New Zealand. ==Early life== He was born in [Edinburgh](/source/Edinburgh), the son of Alexander Stuart and Mary McKnight. He was educated at [Trinity College, Dublin](/source/Trinity_College%2C_Dublin),"University Of Dublin. B.A. Degree Examination", ''[The Times](/source/The_Times)'', Saturday, 11 November 1848; p. 7; Issue 20018; col. G. and [ordained](/source/ordained) in 1850.''The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory'', London: Hamilton & Co 1889. With his great friend [Valpy French](/source/Valpy_French)Eugene Stock, [http://anglicanhistory.org/india/pk/stock_french/11.html "An Heroic Bishop: The Life-Story of French of Lahoret"], Project Canterbury. Stuart worked in [India](/source/India)[http://www.cartes.freeuk.com/history/cms.htm History of the Church Missionary Society (1873 – 1882).] as a [CMS](/source/Church_Missionary_Society) [missionary](/source/missionary) for 21 years, first at [Agra](/source/Agra) and latterly (until his appointment to the [episcopate](/source/episcopate)) at [Jalalpur](/source/Jalalpur). ==Vocation== Stuart worked in [India](/source/India)[http://www.cartes.freeuk.com/history/cms.htm History of the Church Missionary Society (1873 – 1882).] as a [CMS](/source/Church_Missionary_Society) [missionary](/source/missionary) for 21 years, first at [Agra](/source/Agra) and latterly (until his appointment to the [episcopate](/source/episcopate)) at [Jalalpur](/source/Jalalpur). Recruited from came from India in 1874, Stuart, previously the Secretary of the Church Missionary Society at Calcutta, went to New Zealand for his health, and remained there, proving to be a valuable helper and adviser. At this time [William Williams](/source/William_Williams_(bishop)) was Bishop, but on March 25, 1876, he was stricken with a paralytic stroke on the fiftieth anniversary of his arrival in New Zealand, which forced him to hand in his resignation as Bishop of Waiapu, where he lived for two more years. The Diocese, having the power of election under the constitution of the Church, chose Stuart to be Williams' successor. Williams was subsequently consecrated as Bishop on December 9, 1877, just twelve days before his prior fellow missionary in India in 1850, T. Valpy French, was consecrated first Bishop of Lahore.Stock, 1899, v. 3, pp. 36, 531, 535Stock, 1913, ch. VIII At a meeting on March 24, 1885, Stuart proposed that a Gordon Memorial Mission be built in the Eastern Soudan in honor of Major-General [Charles George Gordon](/source/Charles_George_Gordon), killed by the [Ansar](/source/Ansar_(Sudan)) at Khartoum in January. Stuart's proposal was met with cheers and overwhelming support by the hundreds of people present.Stock, 1899, v. III, p. 318 ==Later life== On 31 January 1894 he resigned and his last calling was as a CMS missionary in [Julfa](/source/New_Julfa), [Ispahan](/source/Ispahan), [Persia](/source/Iran), for 15 years from 1894.Cyclopedia of New Zealand, 1908, p. 345Church Missionary Atlas, 1896, pp. 78-80 Stuart died on 15 March 1911,"Obituary Bishop E. C. Stuart", ''The Times'', Monday, 20 March 1911; p. 11; Issue 39537; col. C, having at some point become a [Doctor of Divinity](/source/Doctor_of_Divinity) (DD). ==Citations== {{Reflist|30em}} ==Sources== * {{cite book |last=Stock |first=Eugene |title=The Story of the New Zealand Mission |volume= |authorlink=Eugene Stock |author-mask= |publisher=Church Missionary Society |location=London |year=1913 |url=http://anglicanhistory.org/nz/stock1913/ |ref=stock1913 }} * {{cite book |last=Stock |first=Eugene |title=The History of the Church Missionary Society : its environment, its men and its work |volume=III |authorlink= |author-mask= |publisher=Church Missionary Society |location=London |year=1899 |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofchurchm03stoc/page/n7/mode/2up |ref=stock1899c }} * {{cite book |title= The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Taranaki, Hawke's Bay & Wellington Provincial Districts]|url= http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Cyc06Cycl-t1-body1-d2-d15.html|year=1908 |publisher= [NZETC](/source/NZETC), The Cyclopedia Company, Limited |location=Christchurch |ref=cnz }} * {{cite web |title= The Church Missionary Atlas (Persia)|date= 1896| url= http://www.churchmissionarysociety.amdigital.co.uk/Documents/Details/CMS_OX_Atlas_01|access-date=19 October 2015 | publisher = [Adam Matthew Digital](/source/Adam_Matthew_Digital) |ref=cma }} * {{Cite web |title=The Cyclopedia of New Zealand |year=2016 |url=https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Cyc06Cycl-t1-body1-d2-d15-d1.html |access-date=2024-04-23 |website=nzetc.victoria.ac.nz |ref=nzetc }} {{s-start}} {{s-rel}} {{s-bef|before=[William Williams](/source/William_Williams_(bishop))}} {{s-ttl|title=[Bishop of Waiapu](/source/Bishop_of_Waiapu)|years=1877–1894}} {{s-aft|after=[Leonard Williams](/source/Leonard_Williams_(bishop))}} {{s-end}} {{Bishops of Waiapu}} {{Christianity in Iran}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Stuart, Edward Craig}} Category:1827 births Category:Clergy from Edinburgh Category:Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Category:Anglican bishops of Waiapu Category:19th-century Anglican bishops in New Zealand Category:1911 deaths Category:Scottish emigrants to New Zealand Category:Scottish Anglican missionaries Category:Anglican missionaries in Iran Category:Anglican missionaries in India Category:British missionaries in Iran Category:British missionaries in India {{NewZealand-Christian-clergy-stub}} {{Anglican-bishop-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Edward Stuart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Stuart) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Stuart?action=history)). 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