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Author: Stuart, James

Biography:

STUART, James (1764-1840: ODNB)

He was born in Armagh in Northern Ireland, the son of Benjamin Stuart; the name of his mother is not known. After graduating AB from Trinity College Dublin in 1789, he enrolled at the Middle Temple to study law but it is not clear how long he stayed there and he was never called to the bar. He re-emerged in Ireland in 1811 when his poems were published and he entered on a career as a newspaper editor with the Newry Telegraph (from 1812) and the Newry Magazine (1815-19). While working in Newry he wrote a valuable history of the area, Memoirs of the City of Armagh for. . . 1373 Years (1819). At some point he married Mary Ogle (d 1853); the couple had no children. In 1821 Stuart moved to Belfast to edit the Tory News Letter. He later founded and edited the conservative Protestant Guardian and Constitutional Advocate (1827-35), but was obliged to resign within two or three years on account of ill health. Sick and impoverished, he was taken in by a friend at whose house he died on 28 Sept. 1840. (ODNB 27 Oct. 2020; DIB 27 Oct. 2020)

 

Books written (2):

Belfast: printed by Joseph Smyth, 1811
Baltimore: printed by G. Dobbin and Murphy, 1812