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Revision as of 18:20, 23 March 2005 by V M 1974 (talk | contribs)(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 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 Canada (1633), Lord Alexander of Tullibody (1630), and Lord Alexander of Tullibody (1633). The earls were also Baronets Alexander, of Menstre, in Logie, co. Clackmannan (Nova Scotia, 12 July 1625).