John McDouall Stuart (1815-1866), an Australian explorer, the first European to successfully traverse the continent from south to north.
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Stuart was born at Inverness on September 25, 1718, the third of ten sons born to Bailie John Steuart, a prosperous merchant of that city, and his second wife Christian MacLeod, a native of Skye.
John Stephens, a survivor, gave an eyewitness account of what occurred next: "After the beating of reveille, while (the soldiers), were preparing to march, two guns were fired at Captain Demere, who was wounded by one of the shots.....
Stuart's tenure was one of the few bright spots of the English administration of her American colonies.
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