Major Robert Stuart (c.1812 – 17 June 1901) was a British army officer and diplomat who served in Eastern Europe and the Caribbean.
William Stuart (Vicar of Mundon and Rector of Hazeleigh in Essex), also entered the diplomatic service and served around the Black Sea, although both also had their careers cut short: Charles drowned in the Danube at Brăila in Romania in 1885 and William was murdered at Batum in Georgia in 1906.
During the Crimean War, however, he rejoined the army, rising to the rank of major and serving on the staff of General Fenwick Williams.
He was also the author of a confidential report sent to the Foreign Office entitled "The People of the Haitian Republic", which may have been an unacknowledged source for the memoirs of his predecessor, Spenser St. John, which were published in 1884.
[1] In 1856, Stuart led an expedition to the summit of Mount Ararat, along with Major Alick Fraser, the Rev.