James Stewart

James Stewart was born in Belfast and began his medical career in Ireland, earning a BA from Queen's University Ireland in 1864 and training at the Dublin Lying-In Hospital. He initially served as a Surgeon in the Royal Navy, including service aboard HM Frigate Constance during the Jamaican yellow fever epidemic of 1867. He later worked in mental healthcare at the Dorset and Kent County Asylums. He was involved in the temperance movement and was a member of the Medical Temperance Association and the Society for the Study of Inebriety. He authored a pamphlet entitled 'Treatment of Inebriety among the Higher and Educated Classes'. He died in London in December 1928.