William Horwood Stuart
British diplomat
William Horwood Stuart (c. 1857 – 20 May 1906) was a British and Irish diplomat and merchant, who was murdered whilst serving as the United States vice-consul in Batum, Russian Empire.
Family
Stuart was born in Harrow, Middlesex (present-day Greater London) to William Stuart and Caroline Stuart (née Horwood). Stuart was baptised on 6 May 1857 at St Mary's Church. Stuart's father was born in Ireland and his mother was born in Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire. Stuart's father later served as Vicar of Mundon, Essex (1862–1889), and Rector of Hazeleigh, Essex (1889–1896).
Stuart was the nephew of army officer and diplomat Major Robert Stuart and the surgeon and artist James Stuart. Stuart was the great-nephew of Charles Stuart, an Irish officer in the East India Company Army.
Early career
In 1873 Stuart was serving as Private Secretary to his uncle Major Robert Stuart, a British consul-general for the Russian ports on the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov in Odessa, Ukraine. In the 1880s he was based in Brăila in Romania, where, in July 1885, his younger brother Charles Leader Justice Stuart drowned in the Danube at the age of 16.
Batum
By the early 1890s, Stuart had moved to Batum, Russian Empire (present-day Batumi, Georgia) where he remained until his death.
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