James Stuart of Dunearn

(1775-1849)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Stuart, James, 1775-1849 NRA: Stuart James (1775-1849) Writer to the Signet DNB: Stuart, James (1775-1849), landowner, politician, and factory inspector LBT ID: JaStuar1849 VIAF ID: 100223870 LOC ID: n87912957	B/BAP: 1775 DIED: 1849-11-03
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Scottish politician and book-collector who killed Alexander Boswell in a duel over slanderous material in the Glasgow Sentinel; he was editor of The Courier in the 1830s.
REFERENCES TO James Stuart of Dunearn: John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 30 March 1822 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1: ¶ 1 “Duel between Sir A. Boswell and Mr. Stuart” in The Examiner (7 April 1822) 217-18 Found 4: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ 3 ¶ 4 “The late Scotch Duel” in The Examiner (14 April 1822) 232 Found 1: ¶ 3 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VI 1821 Found 1: ¶ 24 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 19: Club Law Found 1: ¶ 2 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter IV. Found 1: ¶ 17 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XXI. Found 1: ¶ n1 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 10: 1821-24 Found 1: ¶ 18 Whishaw, J. (John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Chapter X: 1822