The Sterling genealogy

156 THE STERLING GENEALOGY
included, beside those mentioned : " The Election," a poem
in seven books, London, 12mo, " Strafford," a tragedy, dedi-
cated to Ralph Waldo Emerson, his intimate friend, " Rich-
ard Cceur de Lion," an Orlandish or Odyssean serio-comic
poem. His writings were collected in 18-18 by Julius Hare
(Essays and Tales by John Sterling), 2 vols., London, 8vo,
with a memoir in many respects admirable, but its inadequacy
stimulated Carlyle to the composition, in 1851, of the biography
which has made Sterling almost as widely known as Carlyle
himself.
Correspondence with Emerson was published in the July num-
ber of the Atlantic Monthly, 1897, with a sketch of Sterling's
life by Edward Waldo Emerson. Thomas Carlyle's " Life of
Sterling," will of course remain the greatest monument to this
brilliant and unfortunate man.
Children
1 Edward Conningham Sterling, born Oct. 14, 1831 ; married
Bertha Stone and died in 1815. One daughter
was living in 1904.
2 Anna Charlotte Sterling, born Feb. 15, 1833.
3 Katharine Susan Sterling, born Dec. 2, 1834.
4 Julia Maria Sterling, born Mar. 26, 1836.
X 5 John Barton Sterlng, born Oct. 12, 1840.
6 Hester Isabella Sterling, born Apr, 14, 1843.
X MAJOR GENERAL JOHN BARTON STERLING,
born Oct. 12, 1840; married in 1864, Caroline, eldest daughter
of Sir John S. Trelawny, 9th Bart.
After a short service in the Navy, Mr. Sterling was gazetted
to the 8th Foot in 1861 ; was transferred to the Cold Stream
Guards in the same year; served in that regiment till 1896 and
commanded the 2d Battalion for four years and the regiment
and North London Volunteer Brigade for five years ; was present
with the 2d Battalion in Egypt in 1882, and was wounded at Tel-
el-Kebir; was second in command of the first Battalion in the
Soudan and in the Cyprus campaign of 1885 ; was promoted
major general in 1896; retired in 1902. Residence, 249 Knightsbridge,
London, S. W.