Francis Godolphin Osbourne Stuart

Stuart worked as a photographer in Aberdeen and London, before settling in Southampton by about 1881 (appearing in the 1881 census).

On his death in 1923 at home in Southampton, his son-in-law Charles Dowson took over the family business and carried on until the 1930s.

Stuart regularly took team photographs in the early days of Southampton Football Club.

With the outbreak of war in 1914, printing moved to England and there was a notable decrease in the quality of the cards produced.

During the war Stuart acted as the official port photographer, recording damage to shipping and Southampton docks.