Charles Stewart (minister)

Charles Edward Stewart, CB, QHC (born 10 June 1946) is a Church of Scotland minister and former Royal Navy chaplain.

Stewart was educated at Strathclyde University and ordained a Church of Scotland Minister in 1976. In that year he became a naval chaplain: his service included

• HMS Sea Hawk, RNAS Culdrose, 1976–1978
• Clyde Submarine Base, 1978–1980;
• Staff of Flag Officer 3rd Flotilla, 1980;
• HMS Hermes, Falklands War, 1981-1982
• HMS Neptune, 1982–1985;
• HMS Drake, 1985–1987;
• HMS Raleigh, 1987–1990
• BRNC, Dartmouth, 1990–1993;
• Assistant Director, Royal Navy Chaplaincy Service, 1992–1994;
• HMS Invincible, Bosnia, 1994–1996;
• Director-general Royal Navy Chaplaincy Service, 1996–1997;
• Chaplain of the Fleet, 1998–2000^[1]
• QHC 1996–2000.
• Chaplain, Royal Hospital School, 2000–10^[2]

He was awarded the South Atlantic Medal in 1982; and the NATO Medal in 1995.

Notes

1. Admiral of the Fleet Lord Lewin, KG The Times (London, England), Wednesday, April 14, 1999; pg. 20; Issue 66487 (Stewart officiates at his memorial service as Chaplain of the Fleet)
2. ‘STEWART, Rev. Dr Charles Edward’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 2016 accessed 26 May 2017