Early Life
Robert Stuart was born in Ireland in about 1812 to Thomas Stuart (of Whitehall, County Clare, and Lifford, County Limerick, the alleged illegitimate son of Thomas Smyth and brother of Major-General Charles Stuart). On 2 June 1842 he married Elizabeth Sarah Cathcart, youngest daughter of the Honorable and Reverend Archibald Hamilton Cathcart and Frances Henrietta Fremantle); they had no children. One of Robert's eight brothers was the surgeon and artist James Stuart, and his nephew Robert Stuart King was a clergyman and football player.
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