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RARE! "9th Baronet" William Stirling-Maxwell Hand Written Note. 

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Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Baronet MP KT, of Pollok FRSE DCL

LLD (8 March 1818 – 15 January 1878), was a Scottish historical writer and art historian, politician, and virtuoso. Until 1865 he was known as William Stirling,

and several of his books were published under that name. He was Chancellor

of the University of Glasgow from 1875 until his death and was

also a Knight of the Thistle,

considered the highest honour that can be conferred by the Crown on a Scotsman.

He was born at Kenmure, the son of Sir

Archibald Stirling, Esq., of Keir and Cawder, and Elizabeth Maxwell, sister of Sir John Maxwell, 8th Baronet,

and Harriet Maxwell (d. 1812) and daughter of Sir John Maxwell, 7th

Baronet and Hannah or Anne Gardiner, daughter of Richard

Gardiner, of Aldborough, Suffolk. He was privately educated at Olney in Buckinghamshire[1] then studied at Trinity College, Cambridge,

graduating with a BA degree in 1839 and

proceeding to MA in 1843.[2] He travelled in Spain and

the Levant and contributed to Fraser's Magazine and

the Examiner. In 1848 he

published his pioneering Annals of the Artists of Spain. He

succeeded to the Keir estates in 1847. In 1849 he was elected a Fellow of

the Royal Society of Edinburgh his

proposer being John Russell. He served as the Society's Vice President from

1871 to 1875.

He

served as Member of to 1868 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 elected Rector of the University of St Andrews in

1862 and of the University of Edinburgh in

1871. He succeeded to the Maxwell Baronetcy (in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia)

in 1865, assuming the additional name of Maxwell. He was of Glasgow in

1875, the first to have been elected by members of the General Council

(previous Chancellors having been elected by members of the Senate),[4] and was awarded an Honorary DCL from the University of Oxford in

the following year. He was a member of the University of London Senate

and a trustee of the British Museum and the National Gallery. He lived

at Keir House near Dunblane. He was horses, of art. He died on holiday in Venice on 15 January 1878 but his body was returned to

Britain and he is buried in the Lecropt Churchyard near Stirling.[

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