William James Stuart

The family lived at 7 Northumberland Street, a large terraced Georgian townhouse in Edinburgh's Second New Town.

In 1906 he was appointed Honorary Assistant Surgeon at the Deaconess Hospital in the south of the city.

Although going into semi-retirement in 1938 he was brought into full operational use in the Second World War when he was asked to run the surgical wards of Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

[3] In 1904 Stuart was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh and served as President in 1936.

[7] He was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by King George VI in 1952.