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Born in England in 1802, died in Gosford, New South Wales, on 28 July 1877.
A gardener and collector, who is known to have been in Adelaide, South
Australia, in 1847, where he met Ferdinand Mueller.
He worked as a nurseryman/gardener
and collected in Tasmania (1842 until about 1852), mainly at Perth, on
the east coast and at Mt La Perouse. He sent most of his collections to
Mueller at Adelaide, and these subsequently went with Mueller to MEL.
He
also collected algae for W.H.Harvey.
Stuart left Tasmania about April 1852.
He apparently returned for a time in about 1855-1857 (collections from
Southport and La Perouse).
Bentham (and Maiden, 1908a) noted that he later
collected in the New England region of north-eastern New South Wales, where
he was a gardener on a property near Tenterfield.
Some of Stuart's Tasmanian
collection became 'mixed' with those of Gunn and ended up in K. His New
England collections went to Mueller (MEL) and some to Hooker (K). A few
duplicates are in BM and HO, others in CN, E, FI, KIEL, LE, M, MANCH, O,
TCD and W.
Richard Aitken notes, in his entry for Stuart in the 'The Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens', that:
Sources: Extracted from: A.E.Orchard (1999) A History of Systematic
Botany in Australia, in Flora of Australia Vol.1 2nd ed.,
ABRS.
Aitken & Looker (eds.) 'The Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens', 2002, Melbourne, p.575
Data from 7,720 specimens