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SOME MISCELLANEOUS SCOTCH RECORDS 191<br />

Sir John was educated at St. Peter's College, Adelaide;<br />

Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A. and LL.B.).<br />

Was called to the bar of the Inner Temple in 1871<br />

entered South Australian Parliament in 1881 ; sat for<br />

districts of Mount Barker and Gumeracha in the House<br />

of Assembly from 1887 ; was elected to the Legislative<br />

Council in 1890. Address: <strong>The</strong> Lodge, Strathallyn,<br />

South Australia.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Right Hon. Sir James Stirling, knighted 1886 ;<br />

LL.D.<br />

F.R.S. ; P.C. 1900; born in Aberdeen, May 3, 1836, eldest son<br />

of the Rev. James Stirling of Aberdeen and Sarah Irvin ;<br />

married<br />

in 1868, Aby, eldest daughter of John Thomson Renton, of Brad-<br />

stone Brook, Shalford, Surrey, England.<br />

Sir James was educated at the University, Aberdeen ;<br />

Trinity<br />

College, Cambridge (B.A.), I860; (M.A.) 1863. Admitted bar-<br />

rister, Lincoln's Inn, Nov., 1862; practised as a conveyancer<br />

and equity draftsman; junior (equity) counsel to the Treasury,<br />

1881 ;<br />

judge of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Jus-<br />

tice, 1886-1900; lord justice of appeal, 1900-6.<br />

Addresses: Finchcocks, Goudhurst, Kent, and 3 Hans Cres-<br />

cent, S. W., London.<br />

James Hutchison Stirling, LL.D., born in Glasgow, June<br />

22, 1820, youngest son of William Stirling of James Hutchison<br />

and Co., Glasgow ; married Jane Hunter Mair, youngest daughter<br />

of William Mair, of Irvine, Ayrshire.<br />

He was educated at the University of Glasgow, and in France<br />

and Germany; qualified in medicine, Edinburgh, 1842; first ap-<br />

pointed Gifford lecturer, University of Edinburgh, 1888-90.<br />

" <strong>The</strong> Secret of Hegel," 1865, new edition, 1893<br />

Publications :<br />

" Sir William Hamilton," 1865 ;<br />

ophy," translation, 1867, twelfth edition, 1893 ;<br />

" Schwegler's History of Philos-<br />

son and Macaulay, with other Critical Essays," 1868 ;<br />

on Materialism," 1868 ;<br />

" Jerrold, Tenny-<br />

" Address<br />

" As Regards Protoplasm," 1869, second<br />

edition, 1872; "Lectures on the Philosophy of Law," etc., 1873;<br />

" Burns in Drama," " Saved Leaves," 1878 ; " Text Book to<br />

Kant," 1881 ; " Philosophy in the Poets," 1885 ; " <strong>The</strong> Community<br />

of Property," 1885 ; " Thomas Carlyle's Counsels," 1886 ; " Phi-

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