Corbet Page Stewart (1897–1972) was a Scottish biochemist and academic author.
Life He was born in Willington, County Durham on 14 April 1897,A. L. Latner, "Obituary. Corbet Page Stewart", Advances in Clinical Chemistry, 15 (1972), p. ix. the son of Corbet Page Stewart, a headmaster, and Ada Mary Fairclough.
He studied chemistry at Armstrong College in Newcastle, which was then a part of the Newcastle University. He studied for a doctorate in medical chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, and began lecturing there in biochemistry. He also worked to expand the biochemical service at Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary.A. L. Latner, "Obituary. Corbet Page Stewart", Advances in Clinical Chemistry, 15 (1972), p. ix.
In 1931 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were George Barger, James Lorrain Smith, David Murray Lyon and Sir David Wilkie. He resigned in 1938.
During the second world war, Stewart was a member of the Medical Council's Blood Transfusion Committee and as an advisor to the Polish Red Cross received the honour of the Polonia Restituta.A. L. Latner, "Obituary. Corbet Page Stewart", Advances in Clinical Chemistry, 15 (1972), p. x.
In 1942, Stewart published a lecture "Nutritional Factors in Dark Adaptation", on nutrition and night vision, acknowledging help in his experiments given by his students and assistants Lady Augusta Buchan (MBE), Miss Bramwell, Miss Morrison, and Miss Wood.C. P. Stewart, "Nutritional Factors in Dark Adaptation", Edinburgh post-graduate lectures in Medicine, 2 (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd), p. 182.
He died in 1972.A. L. Latner, "Obituary. Corbet Page Stewart", Advances in Clinical Chemistry, 15 (1972), p. xi.
Family
In 1919 he married Ethel May Kemp (b.1898).
Publications
The Revival of the Religious Mendicant Orders Clinical Chemistry in Practical Medicine (1962) Advances in Clinical Chemistry (1970)
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