Charles Stewart (minister)

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Charles Edward Stewart, 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

HMS Sea Hawk, RNAS Culdrose, 1976–1978
Clyde Submarine Base, 1978–1980;
Staff of Flag Officer 3rd Flotilla, 1980;
HMS Hermes, Falklands War, 1981-1982
HMS Neptune, 1982–1985;
HMS Drake, 1985–1987;
HMS Raleigh, 1987–1990
BRNC, Dartmouth, 1990–1993;
Assistant Director, Royal Navy Chaplaincy Service, 1992–1994;
HMS Invincible, Bosnia, 1994–1996;
Director-general Royal Navy Chaplaincy Service, 1996–1997;
Chaplain of the Fleet, 1998–2000^[1]
QHC 1996–2000.
Chaplain, Royal Hospital School, 2000–10^[2]

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

Notes

↑ 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)
↑ ‘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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[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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