James Stirling, Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Physics at the University of Durham.
See also: James Stirling (April 22, 1692–December 5, 1770) was an important Scottish mathematician. ... Admiral Sir James Stirling Admiral Sir James Stirling RN (January 28, 1791–April 23, 1865) was a British marine officer and colonial administrator. ... James Hutchison Stirling (1820 - 1909), philosopher, born in Glasgow, and educated there and at Edinburgh, where he studied medicine, which he practised until the death of his father in 1851, after which he devoted himself to philosophy. ... Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University. ... Durham University is a university in England. ...
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JAMESSTIRLING (1692-1770), Scottish mathematician, third son of Archibald Stirling of Garden, and grandson of Sir Archibald Stirling of Keir (Lord Garden, a lord of session), was born at Garden, Stirlingshire, in 1692.
At eighteen years of age he went to Oxford, where, chiefly through the influence of the earl of Mar, he was nominated (1711) one of Bishop Warner's exhibitioners at Balliol.
4d., was for a silver tea-kettle to be presented to "JamesStirling, mathematician, for his service, pains, and trouble in surveying the river towards deepening it by locks." Stirling died in Edinburgh on the 5th of December 1770.
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