The Sterling genealogy

162 THE STERLING GENEALOGY
William Stirling, but dropped the middle name. He
was an advocate at the Scottish Bar; professor of
Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh,
and the most learned and scientific of the
Scottish School of philosophers. (The biography of
this distinguished man can be found in any work of
reference.) Sir William married Janet, daughter of
Hubert Marshall, who died Dec. 24, 1877. Sir William
died in Edinburgh, May 6, 1856.
Issue
1 Sir William Stirling Hamilton, Bart., of Preston,
lieutenant general, born Sept. 17, 1830; married
Oct. 15, 1856, Eliza Marcia, daughter of Major
General Barr. Has : William, born at Simla, Dec.
4, 1868, John, born in 1873, Louisa (died in 1863),
Janet, Elizabeth, Mary, and Eliza.
2 Hubert Hamilton, M.A., advocate, Edinburgh,
married June 17, 1868, Louisa Wentworth, daughter
of Laurence Davidson, Esq. Has : William Stirling,
born July 7, 1869.
3 Thomas Hamilton, M.B., F.R.C.S. ; married
Nov. 6, 1873, Helen, daughter of H. W. Nutt; has
three sons.
4 Elizabeth Hamilton, died Mar. 2, 1882, unmarried.
2 Thomas Hamilton (second son of Elizabeth Stir-
ling Hamilton), born in 1789; miscellaneous writer,
member of the staff of Blackwood's Magazine, a
friend of Michael Scott and Wordsworth. He was
twice married, the second time to the widow of Sir
R. T. Farquharson, Bart. He died at Pisa, Italy,
Dec. 7, 1842.
7 Agnes, married Dugald Bannatyne of Glasgow.
IX ANDREW STIRLING, FIRST OF DRUMPELLIER,
born in Glasgow in 1751. He inherited from his grandfather, Andrew
Buchanan, the estate of Drumpellier in Lanarkshire. He was
a factor or commission merchant in London and a man of considerable
wealth. He endeavored to have himself declared by the Lyon
Court to be the representative of the ancient Stirlings of Cadder,
sheriffs of Stirling, and, while he was not successful in establishing
this claim, which was dependent upon the identitj' of Robert Stir-