George Okill Stuart (June 29, 1776 – October 5, 1862) was an

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clergyman and educator who was born into a

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family that came to

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in 1781. He was born at Fort Hunter near

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, the son of the Reverend John Stuart and Jane Okill. The family first settled in

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but moved to Cataraqui (now

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) in 1785 . Stuart studied at his father's schools in Montreal and Kingston. He went on to study at

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and at

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. Stuart opened a school in Kingston in 1795. His formal education was completed at

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, which granted him an AB in 1801. By that time he had been ordained a deacon of the Church of England in Canada now the

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. Stuart was sent to York (later

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). He opened a school there which became the Home District Grammar School and served as its first schoolmaster. He married Lucy, the daughter of John Brooks, later

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, in 1803 and, in 1812, succeeded his father at Kingston. Stuart was also designated as the bishop's official in

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. He was named archdeacon of York in 1821 and archdeacon of Kingston in 1827. Stuart was named to the council for

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in 1851 and became the first dean for the district of Ontario in 1862. The street that divides the campus of

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from the

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compound was named in his honour, as was a cluster of four other small streets near the hospital. The former is Stuart and the others are Arch, Deacon, George and Okill.Queen's Encyclopedia - Okill Street
Retrieved January 4, 2018 He died at Kingston in 1862 . His brothers

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and

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both settled in Lower Canada, where they practiced law and were active in politics.

References

External links

Biography at ''the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online''
1776 births 1862 deaths People from Montgomery County, New York Harvard College alumni Canadian Anglican priests Deans of Ontario American emigrants to pre-Confederation Quebec United Empire Loyalists Immigrants to Lower Canada {{Anglican-stub