ROSS, CHARLES STUART was born in Scotland in 1840 and was a student at King's College, Aberdeen University. Ordained by the Presbyterian Church, he came to New Zealand and in 1869 was appointed to the parish of Roxburgh and Alexandra, in Central Otago. He was subsequently called to Riverton (1872-77), Anderson's Bay (1877-83), and Hawke's Bay, and in 1885 to Skipton, near Ballarat, Australia. Ross wrote a number of historical works on Otago and Southland, including The Story of the Otago Church and Settlement (1887), Education and Educationalists in Otago (1890), Life and Times of Donald McNaughton Stuart (1894), and Early Otago (1907).

Chisholm (p); Ross op. cit.; Riverton Rec.

Reference: Volume 2, page 132

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