John Stuart

John Stuart (also spelt Stewart or Steuart, Scottish Gaelic: Iain Stiubhairt) (1743–1821) was a Scottish minister, Gaelic scholar, and reviser of the New Testament in Gaelic of his father James Stuart of Killin.

John Stuart's revised Gaelic New Testament was published in 1796 with a print run of 21,500 copies. He was the main translator of the Old Testament in Gaelic which was published in 1801.

Life He was born on 31 July 1743 at Killin manse, the son of the Rev James Stuart and his wife, Elizabeth Drummond.

He was licensed as a Church of Scotland minister by the presbytery of Edinburgh on 27 February 1771, and was presented to the congregation of Arrochar by Sir James Colquhoun in October 1773, and was ordained on 12 May 1774. He was translated to Weem on 26 March 1776, and to Luss on 1 July 1777.

In 1783 he was a founding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He received an honorary doctorate D.D. from Glasgow University in 1795.

Stuart died in Luss manse on 24 May 1821 For his services as translator he received from the Lords of the Treasury £1,000 in 1820, and the thanks of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland were conveyed to him from the chair, Very Rev Thomas MacKnight, on 28 May 1819.

He was the author of "The Account of the Parish of Luss" in vol. xvii. of Sir John Sinclair's Statistical Account of Scotland.