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CHARLES STURT.
6.1.EARLY LIFE.
Charles Sturt was born in India at Chunar-Ghur, on April the 28th, 1795.
His father, Thomas Lennox Napier Sturt, was a puisne Judge in Bengal under the East India Company; his mother was Jeanette Wilson.

The Sturts were an old Dorsetshire family.

In 1799, Charles, as was common with most Anglo-Indian children, was sent home to England, to the care of his aunts, Mrs.Wood and Miss Wilson, at Newton Hall, Middlewich.

He went first to a private school at Astbury, and in 1810 was sent to Harrow.