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January 24, 2003 - Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, A Brief Biography
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Sir William Stirling-Maxwell was born at Kenmure, in Lanarkshire on the 8th of March 1818. He was the only son of Archibald Stirling of Keir and Elizabeth Maxwell, daughter of Sir John Maxwell of Nether Pollok. 
Sir William Stirling-Maxwell (1818-1878)
He was educated in the private school of Mr. Langley, Vicar of Olney, in Buckinghamshire, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1839. After leaving Cambridge Mr. Stirling spent some time abroad, visiting the Levant and various parts of Europe. He returned from Syria in 1842, and four years later he printed privately some of his Songs of the Holy Land, of which a larger collection was published in 1848. This new section of the Clan Stirling Library is dedicated to Sir William and his writings.
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