Josephine Gordon Stuart

Stuart was born in Edinburgh, the daughter of Joseph Gordon Stuart and Moncrieffe Leitch Stuart.^[3] Her father was a solicitor from Stuart & Stuart WS. Her sister Euphemia earned a medical degree in 1904.^[3]

Stuart was president of the Woman's Student Union at the University of Edinburgh in 1906, and earned a master of arts degree in 1907. She graduated from law school in a ceremony at McEwan Hall in April 1909, along with Eveline MacLaren.^[3] They were the first two women to earn law degrees from the University of Edinburgh School of Law.^[4] However, neither Stuart nor Maclaren was ever admitted to the practice of law.^[2]

Stuart married solicitor James Douglas Cameron in 1915, and had two sons, born in 1919 and 1927.^[3] Her brother, son and grandson all entered the legal profession.^[3] Her older son died in World War II, while serving in the Royal Air Force. She died in 1955, at the age of 71.^[2][5]