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Revision as of 01:03, 25 February 2006 by TeaDrinker (talk | contribs) (rv/v to last edit by Hansnesse)(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. The earls bore the subsidiary titles of Viscount of Stirling (1630), Viscount of 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).
There was an attempt to assert that there was a new grant of the title of Earl of Dovan in 1637 connected with the title of Earl of Stirling,and a new destination of descent for the title of Earl of Stirling, but the court case against Alexander Humphrys-Alexander (1783-1859) filed in 1839 ruled that the documents in support of such case were forgeries.