Everything about Sir William Stirling-maxwell 9th Baronet totally explained
Sir William Stirling-Maxwell of Pollok, 9th Baronet (
8 March 1818 –
15 January1878), was an
Scottish historical writer, politician and virtuoso.
He was born at
Kenmure and studied at
Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating BA in
1839 and MA in
1843. He travelled in
Spain and the
Levant and contributed to
Fraser's Magazine and the
Examiner. He succeeded to the Keir estates in
1847.
He served as
Member of Parliament for
Perthshire from
1852 to
1858 and again from
1874 to
1878. He was appointed a member of the Universities Commission in
1859 and of the Historical Manuscripts Commission from
1872 to
1878, as well as of the Scottish Education Board (a forerunner to the
Scottish Office). He was Rector of the
University of St Andrews in
1862 and of the
University of Edinburgh in 1872. He succeeded to the Maxwell baronetcy (in the
Baronetage of Nova Scotia) in
1865, assuming the additional name of Maxwell. He was appointed Chancellor of the
University of Glasgow in 1865 and was awarded an honorary DCL from the
University of Oxford in the same year. He was a member of the
University of London Senate and a trustee of the
British Museum and the
National Gallery. In March
1877 he married noted author and society figure
Caroline Norton, a granddaughter of the famous Irish playwright
Richard Brinsley Sheridan. She died three months later.
He was a breeder of shorthorns and
Clydesdale horses, an ardent bibliographer and collector of works of art.
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