Cyril Stuart

Simon Cyril Edgar Stuart^[1] (27 November 1892–23 August 1982) was Bishop of Uganda^[2] from 1932^[3] to 1952^[4] before returning to England to be Assistant Bishop of Worcester.^[5]

Early life

Born on 27 November 1892,^[6] Stuart was educated at Repton School, then an all-boys independent school in Repton, Derbyshire. He went on to study at St John's College, University of Cambridge.

Career

Military service

Stuart served in the British Army during World War I. On 9 May 1915, he was commissioned into the North Staffordshire Regiment as a second lieutenant (on probation).^[7] While serving with the Suffolk Regiment, he was promoted to lieutenant on 27 March 1916.^[8] He was officer commanding of a company in the Hampshire Regiment with the acting rank of captain from 20 February 1918 to 9 May 1918.^[9][9] He resigned his commission on 11 February 1920.^[10]

Religious career

He was ordained in 1920 and began his career with a curacy at St Mary's, Hornsey Rise.^[11] Following this, he was chaplain and lecturer at Ridley Hall, Cambridge before a long period of service in Africa. From 1925, he was chaplain and librarian of Achimota College and then a Church Mission Society missionary^[12] in Uganda. After two years as an assistant bishop^[13] he was elevated to the full Episcopate^[14] in 1934.

In 1952, he returned to England as Rector of St Andrew's, Worcester.^[15] Four years later, on 19 October 1956, he was appointed a residentiary canon of Worcester Cathedral.^[16] He retired in April 1966.^[17]

He died on 23 August 1982. His memoirs are stored within the National Archives^[18] Bishop Stuart University is named after him.

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16. The London Gazette: no. 40908. p. 5986. 23 October 1956. Retrieved 28 February 2014.
17. The London Gazette: no. 43960. p. 4949. 22 April 1966. Retrieved 28 February 2014.
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