Mary Janet Erskine Stuart | |
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Born | Cottesmore, Rutland, England | 11 November 1857
Died | 21 October 1914 Roehampton, London, England | (aged 56)
Janet Erskine Stuart, RSCJ (11 November 1857, Cottesmore, Rutland – 21 October 1914, Roehampton, also known as Mother Janet Stuart, was an English religious sister in the Roman Catholic Church. She founded a number of schools.
Stuart left the Church of England and converted to the Catholic Church in 1879. She joined the Society of the Sacred Heart at Roehampton three years later[1] and, in 1911, became Superior General of the Society.[2]
Digby Stuart College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Roehampton, is named for her.