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Revision as of 16:46, 26 November 2005 by 68.179.173.206 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)The title of Earl of Stirling was created in the Peerage of Scotland in 1633. It became dormant upon the death of the fifth earl in 1739, although one William Alexander of New York; known to history as Major General Lord Stirling of the American Revolutionary Army pursued a claim to succeed to the dormant earldom in the early 1760s, which was ultimately turned down by the House of Lords. Titles were called out of dormancy by the Baron of Greenan, Timothy Alexander of Greenan (former Honorary Scottish Editor of Burke's Peerage) via an Assumption-at-Law in August 1999. The earls bore the subsidiary titles of Viscount of Stirling (1630), Viscount Canada (1633), Lord Alexander of Tullibody (1630), and Lord Alexander of Tullibody (1633). The earls were also Baronets Alexander, of Menstrie, in Logie, co. Clackmannan (Nova Scotia, 12 July 1625).
Earls of Stirling (1633)
- William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling (1576-1640)
- William Alexander, 2nd Earl of Stirling (d.1640)
- Henry Alexander, 3rd Earl of Stirling (d.1644)
- Henry Alexander, 4th Earl of Stirling (d.1691)
- Henry Alexander, 5th Earl of Stirling (1664-1739)
- Timothy Alexander, 6th Earl of Stirling (1950-) (Timothy Alexander of Greenan, Baron of Greenan, assumed dormant Earldom August 1999)