Charles Stuart

**Charles Stuart** (1783? - 1865) Charles Stuart was born about 1783 in Jamaica, West Indies, a son of a British army officer (of Scottish parents), soldier, magistrate, and pamphleteer; educated in Belfast, Ireland, and at age 18 received a commission in the military service of the East India Company. He rose to the rank of captain of the 1st battalion of the 27th Regiment, but resigned in 1815, likely because of his superior officers' uneasiness about his uncompromising posit ion …