Corbet Page Stewart (1896–1962) was a Scottish biochemist and academic author.

Life

He was born in

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in 1896 the son of Joseph Walton Stewart and his wife, Hannah Bousfield. He studied biochemistry at the

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, and then began lecturing there. In 1931 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were

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, James Lorrain Smith,

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and Sir David Wilkie. He resigned in 1938. He died in 1962.

Family

In 1919 he married Ethel May Kemp (b.1898).

Publications

*''The Revival of the Religious Mendicant Orders'' *''Clinical Chemistry in Practical Medicine'' (1962) *''Advances in Clinical Chemistry'' (1970)

References

1896 births 1962 deaths People from Durham, England Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Academics of the University of Edinburgh Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Scottish biochemists Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 20th-century antiquarians {{Scotland-scientist-stub