Charles Stout

Charles was first educated in Baltasound under Rev. George Robertson. He left school aged 17 intending to pursue a career at sea. He arrived in Lerwick aged 19 and became apprenticed to Dr Loeterbach, a medical practitioner at the Medical Hall. Charles would go on to be connected to the Medical Hall for the next 63 years, where he was both a chemist and registered dentist. He retired from active practice in 1926, by his son Charles carried on the business.

He was a member of the Lerwick School Board and a director of the Lerwick Gaslight Company.

In 1866, the Diana, a whaling ship on expedition to Baffin Bay, became frozen in ice and lay trapped for 6 months. The ship's crew had a large Shetland contingent, and the conditions combined with the lack of provisions saw the more than one third of the Shetland crew lose their lives. When the ship was finally freed, it sailed to Lerwick where upon its arrival in Ronas Voe, Charles and Dr Loeterbach rode on horseback to provide medical assistance. Charles' daughter Elizabeth, who settled in America, recounted this story in a letter to the Lerwick Harbour Trust in 1941.