Charles Stewart (minister)

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Charles Edward Stewart, CB , QHC (born 10 June 1946) is a Church of Scotland minister and former Royal Navy chaplain.

Stewart was educated at Strathclyde University and ordained a Church of Scotland Minister in 1976. In that year he became a naval chaplain: his service included

He was awarded the South Atlantic Medal in 1982; and the NATO Medal in 1995.

Notes

  1. Admiral of the Fleet Lord Lewin, KG The Times (London, England), Wednesday, April 14, 1999; pg. 20; Issue 66487 (Stewart officiates at his memorial service as Chaplain of the Fleet)
  2. ‘STEWART, Rev. Dr Charles Edward’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016 ; online edn, Nov 2016 accessed 26 May 2017


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