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John Ferdinand Smyth Stuart
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John Ferdinand Smyth Stuart (1745 ā 20 December 1814), known until 1793 as John Ferdinand Smyth and mostly after that as Ferdinand Smyth Stuart, was a Scottish-born American loyalist and physician who claimed to be a great-grandson of King Charles II. As the author of A Tour in the United States of America (1784), he used the name John Ferdinand Dalziel Smyth.
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Leaving America during the Revolutionary War, Stuart spent the rest of his life in England and the West Indies.