Biography:

Clergyman, missionary, ambassador, educator. Born– June 24, 1876, in Hangchow, China. Parents– John Linton and Mary Louisa (Horton) Stuart (his mother a Mobilian). Married– Aline Hardy Rood, Nov. 17, 1904. Children– One. Education– attended school five years in Mobile; Hampden-Sydney College, B.A., LL.B.; attended Union Theological Seminary of Virginia. Ordained to Presbyterian ministry; missionary to China, 1905; taught at Nanking Theological Seminary 1908-1919; president of merged Peking University and North China Union College; prisoner of Japanese 42 months; became U.S. ambassador to China 1946. Awarded several honorary doctorates; decorated by Republic of China with Special First Class Order of Merit.

Source:

Current Biography, 1946; Who Was Who in America, Vol. 7.

Publication(s):

Christianity and Confucianism. New York; International Missionary Council, 1928.

Commentary on the Apocalypse. (in Chinese) Shanghai; Presbyterian Mission Press, 1922.

The Essentials of New Testament Greek in Chinese. Shanghai; Presbyterian Mission Press, 1922.

Fifty Years in China; the Memoirs of John Leighton Stuart, Missionary and Ambassador. New York; Random House, 1954.

Greek-Chinese-English Dictionary of the New Testament. Shanghai; Presbyterian Mission Press, 1918.