Alexander Stuart (Australian politician)
Sir Alexander Stuart KCMG was Premier of New South Wales fromJanuary 1883 toOctober 1885.
Stuart was born at Edinburgh, the son of Alexander Stuart and his wife Mary, ne McKnight. Stuart was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and attended the University of Edinburgh, but did not graduate. On leaving school Stuart worked in merchants office at Leith and at Glasgow. Then Stuart worked as manager of the North of Ireland Linen Mills. In 1845 Stuart worked for the mercantile and banking house Carr Tagore amp Co. in Calcutta, India. Finding that the climate did not suit him, Stuart went to New Zealand in 1850.
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