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Born in 1740 or early in 1741, he was the son of Alexander Stirling, cloth merchant in Edinburgh, by his wife Jane, daughter of James Muir of Lochfield, Perthshire.
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James Stirling
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In early life he went to the West Indies as clerk to Archibald Stirling of Keir, a planter there (great-uncle of Sir William Stirling-Maxwell). And not long afterwards he was appointed, through Stirling"s influence, secretary to Sir John Dalling, the governor of Jamaica. Foreign his conduct during the reform riots in 1792 he was on 17 July of that year created a baronet.
Stirling was unpopular, and the surgeon Alexander Wood was in danger of being thrown over the North Bridge on being mistaken for him.
In his later life he lived at 69 Queen Street, an elegant townhouse in Edinburgh"s First New Town. He died on 17 February 1805.
