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Charles Stuart (28th January 1920 - 22nd July 1991) was an English historian and academic. He was a major figure at Christ Church, Oxford in the second half of the twentieth century as a result of his 39 years as an Official Student and Tutor of the College.

Early Life
Stuart was born on 28th January 1920 in Calcutta and was the second son of businessman Willoughby Stuart and Ethel Candy. His elder brother was Douglas Stuart, who later became the BBC correspondent in Washington DC and would become the first presenter of The World Tonight on Radio 4 in 1970. He was an exhibitioner at Harrow School, where he was banned from partaking in physical exercise due to a severe attack of scarlet fever. In 1938, he relocated to Christ Church, Oxford, where he came up as a Scholar in Modern History. His tutors included the eminent historians John Cecil Masterman and Keith Feiling.

SIS and The Second World War
Stuart graduated in 1941 with first class honours and, after having been passed unfit for military service (partly due to his myopia), was recruited into SIS as a result of a request from Hugh Trevor-Roper to Masterman for an intelligent young man who had not been drafted into the armed forces. Trevor-Roper's team in SIS consisted of several other eminent Oxonions (perhaps most notably Gilbert Ryle and Stuart Hampshire), and their main preoccupation was the interpretation of deciphered German code. During this period, Stuart also had contact with Graham Greene and Kim Philby, whose memoirs Stuart was to openly criticise in The Spectator in 1968. Trevor-Roper became a lifelong friend of Stuart, and they were regular correspondents.

Academic Career
After a brief spell at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Stuart was appointed as a lecturer in Modern History at The Queen's College, Oxford in 1947, and the following year took up a position as Official Student and Tutor in Modern History at Christ Church. He would later serve as both Junior and Senior Censor, as well as standing in for Dean's collections, where he was said to have been in possession of "the swift justice of Aristeides". Over the course of his 39 years at Christ Church, Stuart worked alongside many notable historians, including John Mason, Steven Watson, Robert Blake, Baron Blake and Hugh Trevor-Roper. Although Stuart published little (most of his work in this field is in the form of editing books such as The Whig Supremacy and the diaries of Lord Reith), he is chiefly remembered for his undergraduate teaching. Stuart saw his role not as a glorified researcher, but as a teacher of young minds, and sought to encourage each and every one of his pupils to think for themselves. He retired in 1987 after many years of distinguished service to the College.