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STIRLING, SIR JAMES, brother of William Stirling (qv); b. 1791; in school lists 1801, May 1803; left 1803; entered Royal Navy 12 Aug 1803; Lieut., 12 Aug 1809; Cdr., 19 Jun 1812; Capt., 7 Dec 1818; Rear-Adm., 8 Jul 1851; Vice-Adm., 22 Aug 1857; Adm., 22 Nov 1862; served in action off Cape Finisterre 22 Jul 1805 and in operations in the Rio de la Plata 1807; Commander-in-Chief, China and the East Indies 1854-6; founded settlements in Raffles Bay, Torres Strait 1826, and in Western Australia, of which he was Governor 1829-39 (for his Governorship see Wren, Land Looking West, 1948); knighted 3 May 1833; m. 3 Sep 1823 Ellen, dau. of James Mangles MP, Woodbridge, Surrey; d. 22 Apr 1865.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.