Walter Stirling

Assignee of Richard Wace and Thomas Pierrepont.

1. Son of Andrew Stirling and brother of John, his partner in Stirling Brothers (q.v.).

2. Will with codicil of Walter Stirling of Drumpeller [sic] formerly of 18 Upper Baker Street but late of 18 Curzon Street who died 01/01/1864 at 18 Curzon Street proved 02/03/1861 by sister Agnes spinster, sole executrix: personal estate £60,000. When Agnes herself died at 18 Curzon Street 22/01/1873 she left under £70,000.

3. Walter Stirling Esq., 18 Upper Baker Street and Pirbright lodge nr Guildford in 1835.

   Walter Stirling came from a long-standing and prominent family in Glasgow whose wealth derived from involvement in the West India merchant trade, especially in tobacco and other commodities and who also became enslavers. Walter’s brother, James Stirling (1791-1865), was Western Australia’s founding governor. For the complex web of connections between the family, enslavement in the Caribbean and Australia see Georgina Arnott’s LBS blog James Stirling (1791-1865), enslavement and Western Australia and also her article, ‘Slavery, trade and settler colonialism: The Stirling family and Britain’s empire, c. 1730–1840’, in Georgina Arnott, Zoë Laidlaw and Jane Lydon (eds), Australian Journal of Biography and History, 6 (2020), pp. 51-78.

T71/895 Barbados claim nos. 16, 658, 659, 660 and 661.

1. Thomas Annan, John Guthrie Smith and John Oswald Mitchell, The old country houses of the old Glasgow gentry (2nd edn., Glasgow, James MacLehose, 1878), XXXVI. Drumpellier (available in the Glasgow Digital Library); the Stirling family tree (C17th-C20th) is here [accessed 08/02/2011].

2. National Probate Calendar 1864 and 1873.

3. Boyles 1835 Court Directory.