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Stirling of Keir and Elizabeth Maxwell, daughter of Sir John Maxwell of Nether Pollok.
He was educated in the private school of Mr. Langley, Vicar of Olney, in Buckinghamshire, and at Trinity Col lege, Cambridge, where he graduated in 18 39.
After leaving Cambridge Mr. Stirling spent some time abroad, visiting the Levant and various parts of Europe.
He returned from Syria in 1842, and four years later be printed privately some of his Songs of the Holy Land, of which a larger collection was published in 1848.
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