Patrick Stuart (British Army officer, born 1777)

General Sir Patrick Stuart, (10 June 1777 – 7 February 1855) was a British Army officer who served as Governor of Malta between 1843 and 1847.

Military career
Stuart, the second son of the 10th Lord Blantyre, was commissioned into the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards in 1794. He became a inspecting field officer of the militia in the Ionian Islands in 1816. He went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Scotland in 1830 (and from 1836, Governor of Edinburgh Castle) and Governor of Malta in 1843 before retiring in 1847.

He served as the Colonel of the 44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot from 1843 until his death and was promoted to full general in 1851.

He married Catherine Rodney, a granddaughter of Admiral Lord Rodney.

He died at his home, Eaglescairnie House, near Haddington in East Lothian, on 7 February 1855. His will is in the National Archives.