The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Stuart, Rev. Donald McNaughton
Stuart, Rev. Donald McNaughton, D.D., son of Alexander Stuart and Janet (McNaughton) his wife, was born in 1819 at the hamlet of Styx Kenmore, Perthshire. In 1837 he started a school at Leven, Perthshire, and two years later entered at St. Andrews University. Having supported Dr. Chalmers for the Lord Rectorship after the disruption, he was expelled, with the majority of the students, for refusing to submit to an admonition from the senators. A Royal Commission shortly afterwards reinstated the extruded students, but Dr. Stuart removed from St. Andrews to New College, Edinburgh, where he was a theological student under Dr. Chalmers. In 1844 he was appointed classical master, and subsequently principal, of a private secondary school at Upton Park, Eton, and in July 1848 was married at Slough, Windsor, to Miss Jessie Robertson. He commenced studying for the ministry in London and completed his curriculum in Edinburgh, being licensed by the Free Presbytery of Kelso to the Presbyterian church of Falstone, North Northumberland, where he remained for ten years. In Jan. 1860 Dr. Stuart arrived in Dunedin to take up the position of minister of Knox Church, which he still retains. He is also chairman of the boys and girls' high schools of Otago, and Chancellor of the University of Otago.