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active 19th century C. G. (Charles G.) Stewart
Known from a single Victorian-era legal and medical volume, this little-documented writer helped bring some of the 19th century’s most notorious poisoning trials to a wider readership.
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Reports of Trials for Murder by Poisoning; by Prussic Acid, Strychnia, Antimony, Arsenic, and Aconita. Including the trials of Tawell, W. Palmer, Dove, Madeline Smith, Dr. Pritchard, Smethurst, and Dr. Lamson, with chemical introduction and notes on the poisons used
by G. Lathom (George Lathom) Browne, active 19th century C. G. (Charles G.) Stewart
About the author
C. G. Stewart is listed in library and ebook records as Charles G. Stewart, active in the 19th century. The work most clearly tied to him is Reports of Trials for Murder by Poisoning (1883), a collection of famous British murder cases prepared with G. Lathom Browne.
The original book identifies Stewart as Senior Assistant in the Laboratory of St. Thomas’s Hospital, as well as an associate of the Royal College of Science, Dublin, and of the Society of Public Analysts. That scientific background helps explain his role in a book centered on toxic substances and the forensic evidence used in poisoning cases.
Little else about his life appears to be firmly documented in the sources found here, so he is best remembered as a medically informed Victorian contributor to true-crime and legal literature rather than as a widely profiled public author.